NPR People: John Powers

John Powers is the pop culture and critic-at-large on NPR's Fresh Air with Terri Gross.

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Gerardo Naranjo's gripping film about the Mexican drug war is Mexico's submission this year for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Critic John Powers says it deftly illuminates a society plagued with fear.

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