Tigers Are Not Afraid

Tigers Are Not Afraid is unrelenting in the darkness of its material, but Issa López merges the genre conventions of fairy tales and ghost stories with the genuinely dizzying emotions of childhood.

López elicits solid performances from the young actors, and her vision is clear and uncompromising.

[Writer-Director Issa] López gets remarkable performances from her ensemble of young actors.

A sublime mixture of dark social realism and magical fantasy.

Call it Buñuel meets Blumhouse, a film that is flawed but so full of ideas that it doesn't matter.

Blending the often frightening surrealism of a child's wild imagination with the blood-splattered realism of the drug cartels, "Tigers Are Not Afraid" is a highly original horror story made for these times.

The fairy-tale, magical/horror elements are a little too constructive and strenuously uplifting.

What Tigers Are Not Afraid doesn’t contain in terms of deep characters and real-world specificity, it makes up for with its supernatural elements, allowing its allegory to resonate.

One of the best horrors movies of the past few years. This cast of children is incredible and the story is heartbreaking and sadly eye-opening.

A low-key marvel, surprising and rough and emotional, at times darkly beautiful to behold