I can see where you are coming from Jandy in that it is a fairly solid film, particularly if you want to look at it from a craft pov, it looks the way it should, it flows nicely, the characters are given time to breath and the story takes me places I have never been before. BUT. There is this tendency of niche foreign films that get critical attention, and I see it time and time again, that they are fairly conservative with how they tell their stories, and in any other circumstance, i.e. if this were a Hollywood film, the same critics would be sneering at the film for being too formulaic. But there is this license that these kinds of films get by the nature of their exoticism that these usual criticisms are pushed aside. I have seen enough films at this point in my life that I can’t let this go, that its not enough that a film be well crafted and show me places I have never been, I need it also not to fall into the grooves of familiarity with the storytelling, I need it not to be predictable. And SIn Nombre largely is predictable, and even though I do like the characters in the film I don’t like where the script chooses to do with them.

so if I am rating, probably a 3/5 for me.

Put me down for Anvil over this Kurt.

Sin Nombre is my favorite film of the year so far – but it’s only April. Still.