Tigers Are Not Afraid is in limited theatrical release and streaming in the US, Canada and UK/Ireland exclusively on Shudder.
There is a long tradition of magical realism in Latin American storytelling, which borrows elements from fables and myth and inserts them into true-to-life stories about our modern world to make fantasy part of the norm. While this is more often associated with literature, films like Amélie and the filmography of Guillermo del Toro bring elements of magical realism to film. Tigers Are Not Afraid, the newest film by Mexican writer-director Issa López, not only manages to join the pantheon of great magical realism stories; it’s a movie that’s part war documentary, part dark fantasy, and all round one of the best Latin American movies of the decade.
Source: IGN.com Tigers Are Not Afraid Review