***1/2 2004. Written and directed by the Ecuadorian director Sebastián Cordero. Damián Alcázar earned numerous awards for his performance as the serial killer Vinicio Cepeda. A reporter is sent to a small Ecuadorian town where a serial killer has already murdered several children. If you're a curious movie lover, CRONICAS is a film for you. To choose to handle the serial killer genre in a setting as original as an impoverished part of Ecuador allows the director to say two or three important things about journalism, ethics and the crowd's psychology. Recommended.