The mexican film "Miss Bala," (Miss Bullet) has gained positive reviews from film critics in the United States.

According to the website Rottentomatoes.com, the film directed by Gerardo Naranjo and starring actress Stephanie Sigman, has 89 percent of positive reviews.

"An Explosive Mexican Thriller," wrote the reviewers at Salon.com

The film debuted in U.S. theaters on Friday. Based on a real story, the film depicts the life of a beauty queen that inadvertently gets involved with a drug cartel and ends with her life destroyed.

It also portrays the extent of the drug war in Mexico, the corruption and its impact in the society.

"Miss Bala succeeds in showing off the horrors of that world, but does it in a way that makes audiences feel like they are stuck behind a glass wall. It’s not a bad film by any means, but it does hold itself back from being a great one," film critic Eric Eisenberg from Cinema Blend writes.

"As with Matteo Garrone’s 'Gomorrah,' a 2008 Italian drama about the Neapolitan Mafia, the virtuosity of the filmmaking in 'Miss Bala' can make it feel exhilarating even as the everydayness of the violence, its tragic banality, forcibly brings the film down to red-stained earth." says New York Times critic Manhola Dargis.

"Miss Bala" opend on Friday in New York and Los Angeles.

Watch the Trailer below:

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