Miss Bala

• Genre: Thriller
• Director: Gerardo Naranjo
• Stars: Stephanie Sigman
• Rate: *** 1/2

Miss Bala already has a critical buzz surrounding it and rightfully so. This merciless Mexican film functions as a first-rate thriller with a would-be beauty queen getting sucked into a nightmare of drugs, murder and degredation. But running parallel to its genre film narrative is a scathing comment on how utterly broken the lines are between right and wrong in contemporary Mexico, with Stephanie Sigman offering a magnetic performance.