Bordertown

"Bordertown" straddles two realms: the worthy and the kitsch. The drama reteams director Gregory Nava ("El Norte") with Jennifer Lopez, whose career he helped launch with "Selena," to tell the story about a femme journalist who journeys to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to investigate why more than 400 murders of women in the area have remained unsolved — a real-life negligence of justice that deserves further attention. Unfortunately, the flimsy conspiracy theories floated here, coupled with the pic's trite thriller plotting, risk trivializing these atrocities while it obfuscates their causes. ... More on Variety.com

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