Review of El Cortez (2006) by Michael Ordona for Los Angeles Times — 26 Nov 2013
Perhaps in an effort to root the film in the genre, the dialogue reaches for a particular hard-boiled register but grasps only clichés.
El Cortez, like so many before it, searches for that nugget in the genre mine but just doesn't find it.
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This review of El Cortez (2006) was written by Michael Ordona and published by Los Angeles Times on 26 Nov 2013.
El Cortez has generally received mixed reviews.
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