A gritty Los Angeles crime drama that (very) slowly becomes a kind of “Batman in the barrio,” Ben Hernandez Bray’s “El Chicano” seldom amounts to anything more than a crude prototype for the kind of ...

“El Chicano” opens deep in the heart of East Los Angeles — or East Los, if you’re local — as a group of Latinx kids watches an act of vigilante justice in their neighborhood. A masked figure frightens ...

This amateurish superhero origin story only underscores the urgent need for major Hollywood studios to do right by Latinx audiences. As it stands, “El Chicano” feels less like a cut-rate version of a ...