As it is, Illegal Tender works as a melodrama, and it benefits enormously from the performance of Wanda DeJesus.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
The movie's a genuine oddity: a Latino action drama with one foot in bullet-spitting genre flicks -- '70s blaxploitation and '80s coke-kingpin films are the primary reference points -- and the other in raggedly personal family melodrama.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Marc Bernardin
For a second, the movie has the snap of a truly surprising thriller -- like a Hispanic "Kill Bill" -- about an aging lioness willing to kill to protect her cub.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
A throwback to 1970s blaxploitation flicks, with a Latin accent, Illegal Tender would be a brassy, sassy guilty pleasure if it were more, well, pleasurable.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Jeannette Catsoulis
Luridly earnest and laughably immoral, Illegal Tender is an old genre movie with a new look. Call it Hispanixploitation.Read Full Review »
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