Crónicas

Crónicas (2004) is a crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Sebastián Cordero and produced under Alfonso Cuarón's banner. John Leguizamo plays Manolo Bonilla, a Miami TV journalist who travels to rural Ecuador to cover a wave of child murders.

In a local jail he encounters a shifty drifter the townspeople blame for the killings — and starts building an exclusive that could make his career. Alfred Molina plays the detective closing in on the same man from outside, and Leonor Watling is the producer back at the news truck quietly calculating what the story is actually worth.

Cordero is less interested in whodunit than in what chasing a story does to the journalist chasing it. The film landed in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2004 — a sharp, uncomfortable watch that holds up. Stream Crónicas online on iFILM.