- Summary: After President Plutarco Elias Calles ordered the closing of Catholic churches across Mexico in the 1920s, the Cristero War broke out. When the war ended in 1929, a band of Christian rebels continued to fight for religious freedom.
- Director: Matias Meyer
- Genre(s): Drama, Western
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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Mixed: 1 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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70The final days of a band of 1930s Christian rebels in the central Mexican wilderness are depicted with majestic stoicism in Matias Meyer’s elegant ode to independence.
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Aug 27, 201370A war film consumed with waiting.
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Aug 27, 201363The film forsakes most of the underdog sentimentality found in traditional genre treatments of noble sacrifice.
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60Mr. Meyer adheres to a cinema of broad experience by casting rugged but uninspiring nonprofessionals and focusing on the rebels’ long, lonely struggle rather than on triumph and tactics.
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