Drama/Mex
IFC First Take | Release Date: July 11, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
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Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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80
Village VoiceJim Ridley
"Amores Perros" is a yappy whelp compared to this striking degrees-of-separation drama by Mexican writer-director Gerardo Naranjo. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
You want to hate his characters? Go ahead. You want to feel sympathy for them? That's OK too. In either case, you'll be shaken by Drama/Mex. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubStaff (Not credited)
In many ways, Drama/Mex is a typical Iñárritu-style mélange of souls in crisis, bouncing off each other in unexpected ways. Read full review
70
VarietyJay Weissberg
An unerring compositional eye plus firm control of an inventive structure keep Drama/Mex well within the attention span, even when the script wanders without seeming to know why. Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Gerardo Naranjo's deliriously trashy Drama/Mex may not do much to burnish the international prestige of Mexican cinema, but it's an entertaining blend of obvious influences, from softcore cable-TV porn to Tarantino to "Less Than Zero" and "Leaving Las Vegas." Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Visually arresting but thematically uneven, Gerardo Naranjo's fictional snapshot of a gritty Mexican beach is simply too desperate to shock us. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesSam Adams
Skipping from one story to another and scrambling their relative chronologies, Drama/Mex presents a flashy package, but that only reveals the paucity of its ideas. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Drama/Mex means to say something about its country of origin, though it’s hard to know exactly what. Read full review
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