Güeros
Kino Lorber | Release Date: May 20, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
77
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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100
SalonAndrew O'HehirJul 12, 2015
It’s a gorgeous sound-and-vision journey through a mystical or mythical space that has echoes of the 1960s Paris of Godard and Truffaut and the 1980s New York of Jim Jarmusch. Read full review
100
RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireMay 20, 2015
Best debut feature I’ve seen in the last year, best Mexican film in recent memory, and best (black and white) cinematography since Pawel Pawlikowski’s equally stunning but very different “Ida.” Read full review
91
The PlaylistOktay Ege KozakJul 12, 2015
Gueros is as close as we’ll get to a parody of art house films while being a proud member of them. Read full review
88
Boston GlobePeter KeoughSep 17, 2015
Güeros is brutal, ironic, madcap, and grim. Shot by Damian Garcia in black-and-white with the pristine spontaneity of Godard’s cinematographer Raoul Coutard, it is “Bande à part” (1964) meets “Los Olvidados” (1950). Read full review
80
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMay 19, 2015
The story pops and swerves; the images are by turns comical, banal and ravishing; and the result is a briskly shaken cocktail made of equal parts provocation and comfort. You come away with a buzz that is invigorating and pleasantly familiar. Read full review
80
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlMay 19, 2015
What makes Güeros fascinating, besides the joyous invention of Ruizpalacios's craft, is how the director emphasizes rather than hides his own authorial engagement. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubAdam NaymanMay 19, 2015
Even if Güeros doesn’t entirely work, it feels worthy: a film made independently and without interference whose reverence for the past thankfully doesn’t result in too much solemnity or seriousness. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineElise NakhnikianMay 17, 2015
A good story, full of life and related with intelligence and a sense of humor. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeJul 12, 2015
The personalities here feel genuine, as if a group of friends had banded together to make a movie just a few degrees removed from their real lives — a la “Clerks” or “Swingers,” though not nearly as conceptual, plot-wise. Read full review
70
The DissolveNoel MurrayMay 19, 2015
Güeros is a vivid illustration of factionalism’s brute outcome, which has people choosing up sides and tossing bombs at people, while dismissing their victims’ complicated lives and problems. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijJul 12, 2015
This bouncy and effervescent film often has the kind of timeless charms that can also be found in the early New Wave films, even if the screenplay, set against the backdrop of the massive 1999 student protests in Mexico City, unsuccessfully tries to smuggle in a slightly more serious and topical undercurrent via the backdoor. Read full review
50
New York PostFarran Smith NehmeMay 20, 2015
Agreeable this film certainly is, but the shagginess never seems to take shape. Read full review
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