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  • 2021
  • R
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2021
  • R
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 47 m

Summary Following family tradition, Teresa and Montoya join the police force, only to find their convictions and hopes crushed by a dysfunctional system. Their emotional bond becomes a refuge for the hostility they are exposed to. Through an experimental style of narrative and documentary storytelling, A Cop Movie propels the viewer into an unus...

Directed By: Alonso Ruizpalacios

Written By: David Gaitán, Alonso Ruizpalacios

  • 2021
  • R
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2021
  • R
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 47 m

A Cop Movie

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
76
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary Following family tradition, Teresa and Montoya join the police force, only to find their convictions and hopes crushed by a dysfunctional system. Their emotional bond becomes a refuge for the hostility they are exposed to. Through an experimental style of narrative and documentary storytelling, A Cop Movie propels the viewer into an unus...

Directed By: Alonso Ruizpalacios

Written By: David Gaitán, Alonso Ruizpalacios

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
76
86% Positive
12 Reviews
14% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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14% Mixed
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100
Mar 5, 2021
Far from being copraganda, A Cop Movie, the new feature from director Alonso Ruizpalacios (“Güeros,” “Museo”), is a formally daring and incisive deep dive into their performance of authority.
By Carlos Aguilar FULL REVIEW
83
Mar 5, 2021
Director Alonso Ruizpalacios’ exciting and unpredictable look at a pair of Mexico City police officers blends documentary and narrative techniques to deliver a refreshing and innovative look at the challenges of modern-day police work — as well as the underlying corruption that makes the most earnest officers vulnerable to a system rigged against them.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
7.3
67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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33% Mixed
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80
Nov 5, 2021
Along with its trenchant, revelatory depictions and discussion of police work and related political ills, A Cop Movie pulls these hidden vectors of image-making, opinion-shaping power to the fore.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 20, 2021
A Cop Movie, directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios, is exceptionally challenging to begin with. As the movie unspools, and the layers of its production become clearer, we understand the challenge is the movie’s entire objective—up to a point.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 5, 2021
Ambitious, heady and distinctive, if easier to admire in theory than engage with moment to moment, A Cop Movie has a conceptual strangeness that’s difficult to overstate.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
67
Mar 16, 2021
A Cop Movie is too gentle to rouse new disdain for an institution currently subject to such piercing critique. It chooses to make the self-consciousness about its subject matter into a twee form of guilty self-awareness, when what’s needed is bitter medicine, or just insights that better challenge our moral certainties.
By David Katz FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 15, 2021
A Cop Movie is a slick exploration/explanation of Mexican policing. But as the style drifts from first-person, dash-cam point of view “reality” to a laughably generic foot chase through the city and onto the subway, it becomes obvious that believing what we see and hear is meant to matter here. And the gimmicks undercut that too many times along the way.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
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Production Company No Ficción
Release Date Oct 20, 2021
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating R
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Website https://www.netflix.com/title/81314321/
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Awards

Ariel Awards, Mexico
• 6 Wins & 10 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 2 Nominations

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