Tino Ponce operates Circo Mexico, which journeys across the Mexican countryside in search of paying customers. Wanting to please his father and continue the family business, Ponce has recruited his young children as performers while laboring night and day to maintain the circus's faltering financial fortunes. But a growing resentment brewing within his wife about their hardscrabble existence suggests troubles on the horizon. While documenting the brutal regimen of circus life, Circo also peels back the curtain on the Ponce family's inner dynamics, revealing generational divides and money worries that threaten to tear apart a marriage. Buttressed by indie-rock band Calexico's evocative score, Schock's film observes this family drama with a sympathetic but clear-eyed view of a vanishing way of life.
Circo has generally received positive reviews.
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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for The New York Times (9,847) on 30 Mar 2011
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Circo was released in 2011 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 36 reviews, giving Circo (2011) an average rating of 74%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 78%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 72%.
With a score of 74%, Circo is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2011, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 2011 with similar scores include films like Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol and Jane Eyre.
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