Director Alonso Ruizpalacios takes us deep into the Mexican police force with the story of Teresa and Montoya, together known as 'the love patrol.' In this thoroughly original and unpredictable documentary, Ruizpalacios plays with the boundaries of nonfiction and immerses the audience into the human experience of police work within a dysfunctional system.... (Full plot summary below)
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Director Alonso Ruizpalacios takes us deep into the Mexican police force with the story of Teresa and Montoya, together known as 'the love patrol.' In this thoroughly original and unpredictable documentary, Ruizpalacios plays with the boundaries of nonfiction and immerses the audience into the human experience of police work within a dysfunctional system.
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| The PlaylistCarlos AguilarFar from being copraganda, A Cop Movie, the new feature from director Alonso Ruizpalacios (“Güeros,” “Museo”), is a formally daring and incisive deep dive into their performance of authority. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeAt times, A Cop Movie seems unnecessarily convoluted in its structure, but by the end, the brilliance of its design becomes clear: This is nothing short of an existential inquiry into what it takes to be a cop. |
| The New YorkerRichard BrodyAlong with its trenchant, revelatory depictions and discussion of police work and related political ills, A Cop Movie pulls these hidden vectors of image-making, opinion-shaping power to the fore. |
| Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganA Cop Movie is artistic activism at its finest, carefully treading the line of fact and fiction in a manner that illuminates rather than obfuscates. |
| The GuardianPeter BradshawIt’s a movie bristling with ideas and ingenuity. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenAlonso Ruizpalacios voices a profound sense of powerlessness on the part of the police without sentimentalizing the abuses and biases of the profession. |
| Screen DailyAllan HunterThe layering of styles and perspectives provides a sympathetic insight into the motivations and real life experiences of police officers working within a fundamentally corrupt system. |
| IndieWireEric KohnDirector Alonso Ruizpalacios’ exciting and unpredictable look at a pair of Mexico City police officers blends documentary and narrative techniques to deliver a refreshing and innovative look at the challenges of modern-day police work — as well as the underlying corruption that makes the most earnest officers vulnerable to a system rigged against them. |
| RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyA Cop Movie, directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios, is exceptionally challenging to begin with. As the movie unspools, and the layers of its production become clearer, we understand the challenge is the movie’s entire objective—up to a point. |
| The New York TimesBen KenigsbergAmbitious, heady and distinctive, if easier to admire in theory than engage with moment to moment, A Cop Movie has a conceptual strangeness that’s difficult to overstate. |
