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By Uriel H (85) on 07 Feb 2012

Swietne kino meksykanskie! chociaz cos mi tam brakuje…

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By Sourav B (49) on 04 Feb 2012

Highly impressive filmmaking from a technical standpoint, this is one of the best films out of Mexico that I've seen in a while…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 03 Feb 2012

an audacious yet hopelessly uninvolving art-house thriller that peters out significantly in the buildup to its anticlimactic finale…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 02 Feb 2012

Naranjo is unflinching in his determination not to serve up mindless entertainment…

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By Luna M (2) on 31 Jan 2012

A skinny beauty pageant contestant (sincerely played by Stephanie Sigman) becomes unwillingly embroiled with drug runners in the firecracker…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 30 Jan 2012

it's clear Naranjo has a lot on his mind about the state his country has fallen into. If only he had a clearer narrative…

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By Cara L (33) on 28 Jan 2012

A little confusing in its resolution, wonderfully ambiguous, a calm thriller…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 27 Jan 2012

Miss Bala has been praised on the festival circuit for being a gritty look at the Mexican drug trade but too often it seemed like a bargain-bin…

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By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 Jan 2012

Maybe the film doesn't add up to quite as much as its talented director, Gerardo Naranjo, seems to have hoped, but it is tense and propulsive…

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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 26 Jan 2012

You feel the movie's authenticity, throughout the ordeal that leaves Laura brutalized, terrified, confused, abandoned, with nowhere to turn…

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By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 Jan 2012

Bala, by the way, means bullet…

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By Loren King (177) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 26 Jan 2012

Miss Bala signals the rise of a director to watch, as Naranjo offers a grim subject with neither flash nor sentiment…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 26 Jan 2012

There are no good guys in Miss Bala, just bad guys of different stripes…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Jan 2012

Miss Bala toes a delicate line between exploitation movie and movie about exploitation, but that's part of what gives the film its charge -…

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By Ana C (170) on 25 Jan 2012

Please someone tell me why the lead character kept going back... for more…

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By Patrick Z. Mcgavin (37) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 24 Jan 2012

Sigman's tremulous, vivid performance anchors the movie. It's a knockout…

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By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 23 Jan 2012

Provides a discomfortingly intimate glimpse into the complexities of the Mexican-U.S. drug trade…

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By Santiago P (56) on 21 Jan 2012

So if you knew nothing about the drug war in Mexico, you came out of this movie exactly how you came in…

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By Peter F (998) on 21 Jan 2012

Despite some technical deficiencies, the movie has achieved in delivering its message-the violent narcotic war in Mexico seems endless and…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 20 Jan 2012

Miss Bala can't quite engage. It fires at the target. It makes a lot of noise. But it never quite hits the bull's eye…

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