We Are Mari Pepa(Somos Mari Pepa)

Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl

We Are Mari Pepa is a sweaty, urgent, beautifully honest bliss out.

The Dissolve by Andrew Lapin

The film is fitfully amusing but a bit too shapeless, even for a story about slackers.

The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij

Though individual scenes feel authentic, the overall structure’s rather loose and there’s not a single narrative throughline. This has several advantages... But it also somewhat diffuses the film’s focus.

Slant Magazine by Clayton Dillard

The film finally works because of its multitudinous interests in adolescent shell-shock, where paralysis and uncertainty can only be momentarily assuaged through gendered outrage.

The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

For all its enthusiastic vulgarity and truly terrible punk rock, We Are Mari Pepa is a gently endearing portrait of four amiable Mexican teenagers feeling their way toward adulthood.