Synopsis
In the barrio of Oak Springs live a strong and stubborn group of elderly friends who refuse to be gentrified. Their leader, Lupita, keeps them together as a community, a family. But little did they know, their beloved bingo hall is about to be sold to a much more powerful force than money itself.
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Cast
- Adriana BarrazaLupita
- L. Scott CaldwellDolores
- Joshua Caleb JohnsonCaleb
- Richard BrakeMr. Big
- Clayton LandeyMorris
- Jonathan MedinaEric
- Bertila DamasYolanda
- Grover CoulsonClarence
- David JensenMario
- Kelly MurtaghRaquel
Recommendations
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Film Threat
Gigi Saul Guerrero is a Mexican director who works in Vancouver’s thriving female production-driven indie horror scene, as documented in Vancouver Video Vixens. After honing her talent with many shorts, television episodes, and anthology segments, she has arrived as a fully formed auteur with Bingo Hell. - 67
The A.V. Club
A sometimes clunky but always bold blend of social satire and delirious style. - 60
The Guardian
It gets turgid in its final third but backed by director Gigi Saul Guerrero’s cartoonish punch, Barraza’s cantankerous grimace and hair-trigger rejoinders are a pure pleasure. - 60
The New York Times
Despite the generally humorous vibe, Bingo Hell quietly accumulates an unignorable pathos. - 60
The Independent
There’s enough warmth to Guerrero’s script, co-written with Shane McKenzie and Perry Blackshear, to paper over the odd rickety effect or wooden performance. - 58
The Playlist
The film works when Barraza and Brake are allowed to go all-in but comes up just short of being called a winner when it takes itself a bit too seriously. - 50
RogerEbert.com
Even with the poetic, vicious grin we can see from Brake’s gummy smile, feasting on the dreams of lovable people misguided by materialism, there’s far too little to fear, or think about. - 40
Variety
It works hard stylistically to provide a good time. But that would have been a better bet had at least as much effort been put into a screenplay whose ideas, both comic and macabre, remain undernourished.
