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Cartel Land
A new film shows why the hunt for drug traffickers is bound to fail, says MARIA DUARTE
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
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Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
Cartel Land (15), directed by Matthew Heineman
3/5
MATTHEW HEINEMAN’S Cartel Land takes a first-hand look at the endless and fruitless war on drugs as the film-maker embeds himself in two vigilante groups waging battle on opposite sides of the US-Mexican border.
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