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Sin Nombre
The film tells the story of a Honduran teen hungering for a better life, trying to immigrate to the U.S.A., and a boy caught up in the violence of gang life who also needs to escape.
19 February 1992, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
1975, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
16 January 1982, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
1970, Mexico City, Mexico
August 16, 2011
Fukunaga wastes no time with laborious explanations for his characters' motives.
July 29, 2010
full review at Movies for the Masses
October 08, 2010
Spellbinding and nailbiting at the same time, "Sin Nombre’s" climax chillingly evokes the fable of the rabbit crossing the river on the crocodile’s back. Even amid such fleeting hope, its bone-deep fragility proved impossible to shake.
September 29, 2015
Sin Nombre still leaves an acrid aftertaste.
March 01, 2011
It's a drama, a romance and a thriller, but make no mistake - Sin Nombre pulls no punches in delivery a raw, powerful film that shrugs aside genre convention.
May 01, 2009
Fukunaga paints better outside the lines, working with cinematographer Adriano Goldman to offer vivid shots of the poverty and despair cutting through Latin America.
October 20, 2014
[F]or all its raw simplicity, the film manages to conjure a veritable library of references.
August 14, 2009
It's a tribute to the visceral impact of the staging that the film retains its grip despite becoming somewhat predictable, while thematically it's the usual cycle-of-violence hand wringing.
April 17, 2009
Intense Spanish-language feature debut intrigues but doesn't quite gel.
April 17, 2009
Brutal, wrenching and filled with desperation and meanness, Sin Nombre signals a major new talent in writer-director Cary Fukunaga, who never flinches while telling a story so grim and sad it moves beyond tears to numbness.
May 07, 2009
Sin Nombre is pure filmmaking: a great story told in beautiful images.
May 13, 2009
The actors, particularly Flores, have a documentary reality about them. Their reactions to most of their predicaments, even the ones given away too easily by the script, are real in the most human sense.

