Tigers Are Not Afraid

    Tigers Are Not Afraid
    2017

    Synopsis

    A dark fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the drug war.

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    Cast

    • Paola LaraEstrella
    • Juan Ramón LópezEl Shine
    • Ianis GuerreroCaco
    • Rodrigo CortesPop
    • Hanssel CasillasTucsi
    • Nery ArredondoMaxwell "Morrito" Vázquez
    • Tenoch Huerta MejíaEl Chino
    • Benny EmmanuelBrayan

    Recommendations

    • 95

      TheWrap

      Once the spell of Tigers Are Not Afraid ends and the credits roll, its story lingers in the air. It’s a story of sadness, loss and survival, a fairy tale tailor-made for our anxious times.
    • 88

      The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

      The filmmaker has such a strong command of mood, character and performances – especially impressive given the age of her cast – that her world quickly, seductively overwhelms.
    • 83

      The Film Stage

      López’s fairy tale is one seeking to remind us of an innocence not yet stripped clean.
    • 83

      The A.V. Club

      The Tigers’ rooftop hideout is like something out of Hook, and the film moves along at a brisk, Spielbergian clip; however, the combination of dark themes mixed with whimsical fantasy strikes a tone more similar to Guillermo del Toro’s early work.
    • 80

      Film Threat

      Tigers Are Not Afraid isn’t quite the masterful dark fairy tale it aspires to be. The humor is entirely unnecessary and tonally misplaced. But what it gets right, it does brilliantly. The acting is superb, the mix of fantasy and realistic drama is sublime, and the story is haunting and fascinating in equal measure.
    • 80

      Village Voice

      By telling this story through the children’s eyes with a magical-realism element, López makes the tragically unthinkable somehow more palatable.
    • 80

      Wall Street Journal

      It is by turns harrowing, affecting, unexpectedly funny, truly scary and fantastical. (The cinematographer was Juan Jose Saravia.) The fantasy grows overlush from time to time, but Ms. López has created an original work of art in genre disguise.
    • 70

      The New York Times

      Thematically underdeveloped yet pleasingly creepy, Tigers Are Not Afraid balances its mild terrors with appealing moments of childish creativity.