Review of Narco Cultura (2013) by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky for The A.V. Club — 20 Nov 2013
If it weren’t for "The Act Of Killing," Narco Cultura would be the year’s queasiest documentary. The film — which counterposes Quintero’s day-to-day life with that of Richi Soto, a crime-scene investigator in Juarez — is both an unflinching record of Mexico’s drug war and an investigation of how violence becomes unreal and glamorized.
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This review of Narco Cultura (2013) was written by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky and published by The A.V. Club on 20 Nov 2013.
Narco Cultura has generally received positive reviews.
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