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- All in all, the story of Miss Bala is compelling and, thanks to Hardwicke's directing and Rodriguez's performance, it's easy to become invested in Gloria's tale, making for an entertaining time at the movies.
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Feb 1, 2019 · In Gerardo Naranjo’s 2012 drama, “Miss Bala,” an aspiring beauty queen is caught in the crosshairs of a cartel strike. She’s kidnapped, raped and forced to work for the gang in the hopes of finding her missing friend. It’s a bleak story, a loose reflection of how cartel violence has ruined the lives of countless innocent bystanders.
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The film stars Gina Rodriguez, Ismael Cruz Córdova, and Anthony Mackie, and follows a woman who trains to take down a Mexican drug cartel after her friend is kidnapped. The film was released in the United States on February 1, 2019, by Columbia Pictures, in Dolby Cinema.
Feb 1, 2019 · Miss Bala. TRAILER. List. Young Gloria seeks help from the police when cartel hit men kidnap her friend from a nightclub in Mexico. She soon finds herself in big...
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- Catherine Hardwicke
- PG-13
- Gina Rodriguez
Jan 31, 2019 · The inescapable power of the cartels gave that “Miss Bala” a feeling of claustrophobic terror and sometimes absurd fatalism. It was an intense, almost hallucinatory parable of utter...
- Catherine Hardwicke
- 3 min
Feb 1, 2019 · More than 15 years later, Hardwicke returns with Miss Bala, an adaptation of the same-named Mexican film that released in 2011. The original movie was well received at the time, premiering at the Cannes Film Festival and earning mostly positive reviews.
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Jan 31, 2019 · This by-the-book Hollywood remake of the 2011 Mexican art-house movie transforms a passive victim into a new kind of empowered action heroine. By Peter Debruge. Sony. Of course a movie like...
Sep 28, 2023 · Miss Bala is a crime thriller that follows the story of Los Angeles make-up artist Gloria Fuentes, a Mexican-American born in Tijuana who moved to the United States when she was young. Gloria returns to Tijuana to help her childhood friend Suzu with the Miss Baja beauty contest.
