“El Chicano” opens deep in the heart of East Los Angeles — or East Los, if you’re local — as a group of Latinx kids watches an act of vigilante justice in their neighborhood. A masked figure frightens ...

A gritty Los Angeles crime drama that (very) slowly becomes a kind of “Batman in the barrio,” Ben Hernandez Bray’s “El Chicano” seldom amounts to anything more than a crude prototype for the kind of ...

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A Latino detective turns into a masked vigilante in 'El Chicano,' Ben Hernandez Bray's violent thriller set in East Los Angeles. By Frank Scheck El Chicano is being referred to as the first Latino ...

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Services to share this page. EXCLUSIVE: Briarcliff Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to El Chicano, a Latino superhero film with an all-Hispanic cast that just had its premiere at the Los Angeles ...

This amateurish superhero origin story only underscores the urgent need for major Hollywood studios to do right by Latinx audiences. As it stands, “El Chicano” feels less like a cut-rate version of a ...