Amores Perros feels as unnecessarily sensationalized and deeply cruel as any number of gritty, intertwining-narrative indie films released around the same time.

From the vantage point of 2020, Amores Perros feels as unnecessarily sensationalized and deeply cruel as any number of gritty, intertwining-narrative indie films released around the same time.

González Iñárritu taps into an exploration of nature as chaos that would be familiar to fans of Werner Herzog.

[xrr rating=1.75/5]Around the turn of the century, three Mexican filmmakers made cinematic waves with three very exciting indie films. Alfonso Cuarón, who directed the tragi-comedy Y Tu Mamá También would go on to direct a Harry Potter picture and two well-regarded sci-fi movies. Guillermo del Toro, who released his masterful Spanish Civil War ghost story, The Devil’s Backbone, hit critical …