Gunman

Cristian Tapia Marchiori's 2025 Argentine film opens with a retired hitman accepting a small job from his former boss. In a corrupt neighbourhood nothing is what it seems, and he is quickly caught in a web of unexpected events. The genre template is familiar: one last job, then retirement, and of course the job does not go as planned. What is interesting is the use of the outskirts of Buenos Aires not as scenery but as a structure that determines what happens. Julieta Díaz's role widens slightly the space genre films usually allow women. The narrative weakness is the choice to build tension from the density of incident rather than from character; the result is fast but does not stay. Who it's for: viewers who like Latin American crime cinema and hitman stories. Who it's not for: anyone wanting a story that steps outside the genre template, or uncomfortable with the intensity of the violence.