80
Village Voice
"Amores Perros" is a yappy whelp compared to this striking degrees-of-separation drama by Mexican writer-director Gerardo Naranjo.
Drama/Mex
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- Mexico
- 2006
- · 93m
Director
Gerardo Naranjo
Cast
Fernando Becerril,
Juan Pablo Castaneda,
Diana García,
Martha Claudia Moreno,
Miriana Moro,
Emilio Valdés
Genre
Drama,
Romance
Two interlaced stories unfold over the course of the same long, hot day in Acapulco. Beautiful and cool Fernanda is forced to deal with the sudden emergence of her ex-lover, Chino. Her boyfriend, Gonzalo, must now compete with the intense sexual tension Fernanda and Chino share. The second story concerns Jamie, an office worker with hidden indiscretions.
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What are critics saying?
80
Village Voice by Jim Ridley
"Amores Perros" is a yappy whelp compared to this striking degrees-of-separation drama by Mexican writer-director Gerardo Naranjo.
75
The A.V. Club
In many ways, Drama/Mex is a typical Iñárritu-style mélange of souls in crisis, bouncing off each other in unexpected ways.
75
New York Post by V.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.
75
The A.V. Club by Staff (Not Credited)
In many ways, Drama/Mex is a typical Iñárritu-style mélange of souls in crisis, bouncing off each other in unexpected ways.
70
Variety
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.
70
Salon by Andrew 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."
70
Variety by Jay 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.
63
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Visually arresting but thematically uneven, Gerardo Naranjo's fictional snapshot of a gritty Mexican beach is simply too desperate to shock us.
60
Los Angeles Times
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.
60
Los Angeles Times by Sam 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.
50
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
Drama/Mex means to say something about its country of origin, though it’s hard to know exactly what.
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