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  • 2013
  • R
  • Cinedigm Entertainment Group
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2013
  • R
  • Cinedigm Entertainment Group
  • 1 h 43 m

Summary To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco traffickers have become iconic outlaws and the new models of fame and success. They represent a pathway out of the ghetto - a new form of the American Dream, fueled by the war on drugs. Narco Cultura looks at this explosive phenomenon from within; cycles of addiction to m...

Directed By: Shaul Schwarz

  • 2013
  • R
  • Cinedigm Entertainment Group
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2013
  • R
  • Cinedigm Entertainment Group
  • 1 h 43 m

Narco Cultura

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
74
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 10 User Ratings
4.2
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Summary To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco traffickers have become iconic outlaws and the new models of fame and success. They represent a pathway out of the ghetto - a new form of the American Dream, fueled by the war on drugs. Narco Cultura looks at this explosive phenomenon from within; cycles of addiction to m...

Directed By: Shaul Schwarz

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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74% Positive
14 Reviews
26% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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74% Positive
14 Reviews
26% Mixed
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100
Nov 22, 2013
Just over the Mexico/U.S. border from Juarez is El Paso, Texas, ranked the safest large city in America three years in a row now. The question that that fact begs is in part why this film is a quietly subversive masterpiece.
By Steven Boone FULL REVIEW
90
Nov 19, 2013
Narco Cultura is as overwhelming as it is absorbing.
By Geoff Berkshire FULL REVIEW
88
Nov 21, 2013
Narco Cultura isn’t a documentary about runaway crime: Its actual subject is far stranger.
By Rene Rodriguez FULL REVIEW
80
Dec 5, 2013
What this film does is reveal two very different societies — both exhibiting, each in its own way, unmistakable signs of collapse.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
75
Dec 5, 2013
By the end of this troubling film, the cognitive dissonance that it highlights — between the theoretical glorification of the illegal Mexican drug industry and its actual cost in blood — is jarring. It’s an important film, but Narco Cultura is also maddeningly hard to watch.
By Michael O'Sullivan FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 22, 2013
Set to Jeremy Turner's spare and mournful score, Narco Cultura is ultimately more pensive than lurid.
By Mark Jenkins FULL REVIEW
40
Nov 21, 2013
The dissection and discussion, though well-intentioned, winds up lifeless.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW

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4.2
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10% Mixed
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60% Negative
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Production Company Parts and Labor, Ocean Size Pictures
Release Date Nov 22, 2013
Duration 1 h 43 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline The hits just keep on coming.
Website http://www.narcoculture.com/
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Awards

International Documentary Association
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Nomination

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