“Here on Earth” (“Aquí en la tierra”), created by García Bernal, Kyzza Terrazas and Jorge Dorante, explores the brutal crimes, corruption and impunity of one of Mexico’s most influential families. The series was produced for Fox Networks Group Latin America and is being distributed by Fox Networks Group Content Distribution.
VARIETY. By Elsa Keslassy and John Hopewell
Carlos’ life is altered when his influential father is found dead. Adán, the son of Carlos’ family’s head of security, also finds his life disturbed over the popular riots taking place at the San Marcos where he lives, against the construction of a new airport endorsed by Governor Mario Rocha, Carlos’ stepfather.
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True crime and Christian filmmaking collide with more subtlety than either genre is typically known for in “Captive.” Sturdy performances from stars David Oyelowo, as a killer on the run, and Kate Mara, as his meth-addict hostage discovering a sense of purpose in her life.
VARIETY. By Geoff Berkshire
The Mexican crime epic Days of Grace comes with an opening title informing us that it won an award back in 2011. 2011! Why has it taken so long for a film this assured, this bloody and intense, to come to the U.S.? Maybe it’s the soccer angle: Director Everardo Gout’s time-hopping debut feature uses a succession of three World Cups as a structuring element.
VOLTURE. By Bilge Ebiri
The kidnappers were often ghetto boys, some as young as 14, waving big guns in small hands and demanding ransoms ranging from millions of dollars to 2 quarts of milk, a dozen eggs, sugar and a sack of rice. They slipped through alleys like ragged spirits, dodging dogs and counting bullets in a Mexico run wild with street gangs and cops on the take.
LA Times. By Jeffrey Fleishman
“Days of Grace,” the debut feature from Everardo Gout, a Mexican filmmaker with a background in music videos and television commercials, weaves together three stories of violence and corruption in Mexico City. Mr. Gout and his tremendously talented cinematographer, Luis David Sansans (whose credits include Alfonso Cuarón’s “Y Tu Mama Tambien” and Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo+Juliet”), use different color schemes and aspect ratios to signal where we are in time. The music by Nick Cave and Atticus Ross, among others.
NY Times. By A. O. Scott