Drama/Mex 2006

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: There may be nothing moral or especially original about this movie, but it's got life in it. Read more

AV Club: Drama/Mex has an overheated plot, but it plays out at a low boil, mainly because Naranjo is more interested in the subtle stresses of human interaction than in shrill desperation. Read more

Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times: Drama/Mex has flashy style but puppetlike characters and unconvincing stories. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: Drama/Mex can't see past its nihilistic little nose. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Visually arresting but thematically uneven, Gerardo Naranjo's fictional snapshot of a gritty Mexican beach is simply too desperate to shock us. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: 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 more

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Jay Weissberg, 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. Read more

Jim Ridley, Village Voice: Amores Perros is a yappy whelp compared to this striking degrees-of-separation drama. Read more