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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: A portrait of adolescents who learn to form makeshift families when their natural ones let them down, and who are too confident and resourceful to wallow in self-pity. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Co-writer/directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland have crafted a small gem, one of those movies from which you emerge feeling happier about the human condition. Read more
Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune: Quinceanera took both the dramatic Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and it's easy to see why. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: The resolution to the girl's problem is a mite tidy, but the movie does a good job of capturing how ostracism and liberation are sides of the same spinning coin. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: ... smart and irony-free ... Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: ... veers off in a completely different direction -- actually numerous directions, all of which will entice you to follow. Read more
Ella Taylor, Village Voice: ... an untidy, vital slice of Latino life with a loving sense of place and a giddy, improvised feel. Read more
Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: You realize that, while pretending to break ground, Quinceanera is ultimately stuck in familiar Hollywood formulas. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Westmoreland and Glatzer adopt a bare-bones documentary-style approach for this sensitive, sharply observed tale. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: It feels awkward, both in the pat screenplay and the uneven direction. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: ... a modest but remarkably poignant comedy ... Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: As sweet and gentle as it is, Quinceanera is quite clear-eyed about human cruelty and indifference. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Sometimes, keeping it real is all we ask, and this film gets the job done. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Heartfelt and well-observed. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: An intelligent, hopeful work. What it doesn't have in flash and outbursts, it trusts to the lived details. Possibility and truth, it asserts gently, convincingly, reside there. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: ... a we're-down- with-the- locals indie kitchen-sink drama ... Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Sweet, formulaic and forgettable. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: What the movie lacks in visionary skill it makes up for in charm and wistfulness about the depleting effects of gentrification. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: ... saucy, rowdy, heartfelt and terribly sweet movie ... Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: A doubter's parable, the film's story is built on one ironic juxtaposition after another and told in a manner so devoid of irony, that one begins to wonder how the filmmakers could keep their balance in such a gale of metaphysics. But they do. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Debut actress Emily Rios delivers a haunting performance in the lead, honest and nuanced, a perfect match for the documentary-style direction. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Within the formulaic structure is a deeply heartfelt desire to say something new about the Mexican-American experience. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The setting and the people in it make Quinceanera a party worth an RSVP. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: It's all such a throwback, and yet there's something rather sweet about the way this pot boils. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: ... slow to start and less than rigorous about technical and narrative concerns. But it slowly wins you over. Read more
Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Touching, charming and very engagingly played, it offers perceptive insights into LA Latino culture as well as solid, slightly old-fashioned entertainment. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Quinceanera is a spirited and poignant exploration of the bonds and challenges facing a Latino family and the pains of a community undergoing a transition of its own. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: [Has]courage to look realistically, instead of idealistically, at some dubious civic practices; and second, honesty about the painful feelings of kids coupled with their desperate need for love and guidance and their ultimate desire to do the right thing. Read more