Mexican Movies

REVIEW Desierto

By Joe Galbraith 19 January, 2016

Desierto’s title sequence promises much. Grandiose, panoramic photography introduces the desert as a vast lunar world in which human life... Read Article

Golden Globes 2016: A Triumph For Mexico

By Robyn Emily Darbyshire 13 January, 2016

The 73rd annual Golden Globes Awards generated a buzz as the greatest works of film and television of 2015 were... Read Article

REVIEW México Bárbaro

By Ross Cullen 07 October, 2015

Mexico is a country of rich and strange folklore packed with terrible legends of the supernatural and the fanciful; syncretic... Read Article

REVIEW Güeros

By George Kafka 17 October, 2014

Güeros (Mexican slang for a person with light hair) is the new film from Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios that has... Read Article

REVIEW Halley

By Nicholas Nicou 05 July, 2013

In his minimalist debut feature Halley, Mexican director Sebastian Hoffman offers a relentlessly bleak portrait of urban isolation which is... Read Article

REVIEW Post Tenebras Lux

By Nicholas Nicou 16 March, 2013

From the very start of Carlos Reygadas’s fourth feature film Post Tenebras Lux (winner of the coveted Best Director Award... Read Article

REVIEW Life is a Circus – A Review of Circo

By Sofia Serbin de Skalon 06 October, 2011

The circus is tough, but it is also beautiful. So says ringmaster Juventino “Tino” Ponce at the beginning of Circo,... Read Article