The Matador
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  • Summary: Matador' is the epic tale of David Fandila's quest to become the world's top-ranked bullfighter. Heart-wrenching setbacks and thrilling successes dramatize 'El Fandi's' three-year journey across Spain and Latin America and into the pages of bullfighting history. (City Lights Media Group)

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
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  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    70
    The Matador is rightly exciting -- and unsettling.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Elena Oumano
    70
    The Matador reserves judgment while raising the core issue concerning this traditional ritual: deep, poetic cultural expression or glorified animal cruelty?
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    70
    Barbaric, elegant, primitive, erotic, revolting, thrilling: the movie, like bullfighting itself, is all of these.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    25
    Mostly The Matador romanticizes a brutal tradition that has no place in the 21st century.

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