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Desierto
Directed by
Jonás Cuarón
R
2015
88m
Thriller
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Drama
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6.1
64%
46%
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A group of people trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States encounter a racist man who has taken border patrol duties into his own hands.
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Cast of Desierto
Gael García Bernal
Moises
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Sam
Diego Cataño
Mechas
Marco Pérez
Lobo
Alondra Hidalgo
Adela
Óscar Flores Guerrero
Ramiro
David Lorenzo
Ulysse
Lew Temple
Border Patrol
Butch McCain
Un animateur radio
Claudia Angélica Amador Castellanos
Migrant
Dolores Micaela Guzmán Méndez
Migrant
Jonás Cuarón
Director / Producer
Mateo García Elizondo
Writer
Charles Gillibert
Producer
Alfonso Cuarón
Producer
Alex García
Producer
Carlos Cuarón
Producer
Desierto Ratings & Reviews
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
Give "Desierto" credit for this: There has never been a more appropriate time for a tense thriller about Mexican immigrants avoiding the murderous advances of a gun-wielding American lunatic.
Los Angeles Times
Katie Walsh
A generic thriller that happens to be wrapped in political packaging. That packaging is sometimes more interesting than the thrills themselves.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Subtlety sits this one out.
RogerEbert.com
Peter Sobczynski
Ugly and ham-fisted where it should be exciting and edifying, "Desierto" comes up short both as blood-soaked entertainment and as a blood-stirring polemic.
The Atlantic
David Sims
There's been a surprisingly wide range of works with extra weight in a deeply polarized year. Desierto is the nastiest of them all, but it's also the shallowest.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
It's not particularly nuanced. In fact, its lack of nuance is its most distinguishing characteristic.
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
As drama, it's predictable, simplistic, exploitative, and otherwise wholly unredeemed.
New York Times
Neil Genzlinger
Is it a cautionary tale for would-be border crossers, or an indictment of anti-immigrant rage? Doesn't matter; the gory unpleasantness overrides everything else.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's a short, sharp shock that never generates enough emotion toward anyone onscreen to make it the thriller it tries mightily to be.
Washington Post
Alan Zilberman
Cuarón's larger point - one that he pursues with every frame - is that border crossers deserve our sympathy. They have dreams, flaws and feelings.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Cary Darling
It turns into a predictable cat-and-mouse game with one standout performance by the killer's enthusiastically ride-or-die German Shepherd.
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
[An] overly simplistic but effectively tense nail-biter.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
Immigration remains a politically hot topic, one that cries out for nuanced, reasoned examination in a thoughtful film. "Desierto" isn't it.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Call it "bordersploitation." As in so many of those scratched-up B films of eras past, what matters is the cultural anxiety exploited to fulfill the movie's quota of cheap thrills.
Observer
Rex Reed
It's a nail-biter that exposes the hazards of immigration from the side of the victims, and the victims are not you and me.
Village Voice
Simon Abrams
Sam's racist behavior may be intended to make him a menacing sign of our times, but such unbelievable mustache-twirling makes him as threatening as a C-grade Freddy Krueger knockoff.
New York Daily News
Edward Douglas
An impressive edge-of-your-seat thriller set within a fantastic outdoors environment.
Variety
Justin Chang
A brutal and merciless chase thriller that makes no apologies for its political one-sidedness and visceral extremity.
The Hollywood Reporter
Todd McCarthy
The two leading actors effectively enough express the simplistic perspectives they're meant to represent, but there's no subtext or nuance called for; they're more like action totems of diametrically opposed positions.
Slant Magazine
Clayton Dillard
Any perceptive dialogue or contemporary socio-political subtext is pummeled by Jonás Cuarón's preference for empty genre thrills.
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan On Playing 'Sam'
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Behind the Scenes
Carlos Cuaron On Collaborating With Jonas
Carlos Cuaron On Collaborating With Jonas
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Alfonso Cuaron On Collaborating With Jonas
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Gael Garcia Bernal On What Audiences Can Expect
Gael Garcia Bernal On What Audiences Can Expect
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Jonas Cuaron On How Long It Took To Get The Film Made
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