The details are fresh and the lead actor holds the screen even as his character withholds himself, defining who he will be in his own time and on his own terms.

Both edgy and sensitive... It doesn't go in the directions that you necessarily expect.

Family tragedy, legal matters, and the World Cup all zip through the drama, which has a miniseries' worth of incidents that get dispatched in quick, merely informational scenes filmed with little style or imagination.

This is not Berlin, much like its title suggests, is a potent love letter to a Mexico at a crossroads.