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Plot Summary
For Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, there is no music more popular today than narcocorridos. These bloodthirsty and explicit odes to the exploits of narco traffickers and drug lords of Mexico openly glorify violence, narcotics and money. Like gangsta rap in the nineties, "Narco" is a movement threatening to burst into the mainstream. Featuring powerful footage from the front lines of the drug wars and performances from some of the hottest Narcocorrido artists (including El Komander and Buknas de Culiacán) Narco Cultura takes viewers behind the scenes of the most explosive and violent music subculture in America.
Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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86%- Reviews Counted: 37
- Fresh: 32
- Rotten: 5
- Average Rating: 7.6/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: An eye-opening examination of Mexico's blood-soaked drug war and its unsettling pop-culture side effects, Narco Cultura is as overwhelming as it is absorbing.
Fresh: This dispassionate but devastating film looks at the drug wars from two very different but chillingly complementary perspectives.
Fresh: "Narco Cultura" shows us two nations locked in an expensive and destructive war whose only winners are the politicians, police chiefs and drug lords, and whose losers lie in marble tombs and paupers' graves all over Mexico.
Fresh: The breadth of director Shaul Schwarz's documentary Narco Cultura is staggering.
Customer Reviews
Shameful documentary!
Until I saw this documentary, I had never heard of the so called “Cultura Narco,” falsely claiming that this music is popular all over Latin America. Other than portray murder and murderers, this documentary only shows that a few embrace a “sub-culture” that accomplishes nothing but misleads those who do not realize the nightmare they live in. Just because Wal-Mart and other chain stores have realized there is money to be made selling narco-music CDs doesn’t mean that the whole United States population is rushing to embrace a music that teaches nothing but, instead, glorifies criminals. Also, English subtitles should be included throughout the documentary because it is practically impossible to understand what most of the people are saying in English.
Sarah Weeps
Where are the angels in Juárez ?
This is a great documentary. Took some big cajones to film.
Not just music
I’m a old guy that stumbled across this and wanted to see what all the hype was about and what I found was a balanced film showing both sides of the issue and the effect the drugs and money are having on both sides. My hats off to those that filmed this and those that continue to work in what can only be described as a war zone. I was entertained and educated at the same time; a must watch for sure.
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