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Ben Lyons, At the Movies: The combination of professional actors and locals is effective and adds to the unique telling of this immigrant story. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: As accomplished as Sin Nombre is in many ways, you're always aware of the ever-tightening plot screws, rather than the human beings caught in one threatening situation after another. Read more
Dan Zak, Washington Post: Sin Nombre is pure filmmaking: a great story told in beautiful images. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Sin Nombre is at once subtle and intense, familiar but refreshing, intimate even as it tells a story untold numbers have endured. Read more
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Writer-director Cary Fukunaga keeps the story lean while peppering it with realistic details. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: The scope is epic and the achievement, though solidly grounded in conventional storytelling, is a revelation. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: Tragic and gripping, Cary Fukunaga's Sin Nombre revitalizes a gang-warfare genre that had appeared to be played out lately. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Fukunaga paints better outside the lines, working with cinematographer Adriano Goldman to offer vivid shots of the poverty and despair cutting through Latin America. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: It's the tone of the movie's two sides -- action and stillness, graphic violence and romantic melodrama -- that don't cohere. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: There is bitter and breathtaking truth in the story and in the story-telling. Read more
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Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: [Director] Fukunaga has a fine, spacious film sense and a gift for action, but the doomy, heavy-handed plot devices and overwrought, overacted gangland set pieces betray a novice's hand. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Rich details make the immigration thriller Sin Nombre vivid and haunting. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Brutal, wrenching and filled with desperation and meanness, Sin Nombre signals a major new talent in writer-director Cary Fukunaga, who never flinches while telling a story so grim and sad it moves beyond tears to numbness. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Whenever Sin Nombre turns violent, it seizes you with its convulsive skill, but the film's images 
 vastly outstrip its imagination. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: The best that can be said is that it's a more honest film on the subject of immigration than the recent Crossing Over -- but then again, so is Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Read more
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Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The actors, particularly Flores, have a documentary reality about them. Their reactions to most of their predicaments, even the ones given away too easily by the script, are real in the most human sense. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: [Director] Fukunaga's startlingly impressive first feature is almost ruthless in its depiction of the brutality and degradation confronting the hidden hordes that cross rivers and hop trains trying to get to the United States. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It contains risk, violence, a little romance, even fleeting moments of humor, but most of all, it sees what danger and heartbreak are involved. It is riveting from start to finish. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: There are some brief minutes when the tension drops and the story starts to sag, but Fukunaga almost always fills the frame with something worth seeing, and the story has a built-in suspense. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: This is a stunning feature debut for director Cary Fukunaga. The story borrows from road movies and crime thrillers, but the scenes and situations vibrate with authenticity. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: It gives a caravan of migrants human faces, compelling motivations and dramatic challenges that transcend borders. Read more
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: The thrilling and beautifully crafted debut feature of 31-year-old Californian Cary Joji Fukunaga. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Among the film's many revelations is a cast of talented unknowns who stand to become much better known in years to come -- which makes the 'no name' title seem almost ironic. Read more
Trevor Johnston, Time Out: It's a tribute to the visceral impact of the staging that the film retains its grip despite becoming somewhat predictable, while thematically it's the usual cycle-of-violence hand wringing. Read more
Christopher Orr, The New Republic: Fukunaga's gift lies not in inventing clever reversals, but in declining to provide us with the typical cinematic cues that advertise what's coming. Read more