El Velador
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82 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 5 Critics

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  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    Jul 25, 2012
    88
    The Mexican drug cartels have inspired countless films, but never one as final as Natalia Almada's documentary El Velador.
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  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    Jun 13, 2012
    80
    Natalia Almada's eloquent documentary portrait of a sprawling graveyard in Culiacán, Mexico, in the northwestern state of Sinaloa. The rapidly expanding cemetery has become the burial ground of choice for the country's slain drug lords.
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  3. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: David Fear
    Jun 12, 2012
    80
    Filtering the fallout of Mexico's drug wars through the eyes of one stoic security guard, documentarian Natalia Almada (El General) avoids the head-on journalistic approach and emerges with something far more impressive: a piece of lyrical, sideways social reportage that still connects an astounding number of dots.
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