Cartel Land

...there’s no denying the engrossing nature of the footage shown here, or that the people involved are fighting for their own lives.

What makes the vérité-style Cartel Land so chilling is its street-level immediacy and the filmmaker’s warts-and-all portrait of these so-called do-gooders—they’re no saints.

Unflinching and compelling, this gutsy documentary blames governmental failure for the rise of vigilante groups who are taking on drug cartels either side of the Mexican border.

...[an] almost accidentally fearless exposé of Mexico’s terrifying cross-border drug cartels...

...a fascinating, on-the-ground account of people struggling with situations that range from challenging to horrific... [I]t sometimes puts its cameras right it the middle of gun battles, for a result that is extremely dramatic...