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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Village VoiceVillage Voice"Amores Perros" is a yappy whelp compared to this striking degrees-of-separation drama by Mexican writer-director Gerardo Naranjo.
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoYou 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.
- In many ways, Drama/Mex is a typical Iñárritu-style mélange of souls in crisis, bouncing off each other in unexpected ways.
- 70VarietyVarietyAn 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.
- 70SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirGerardo 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."
- 63New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanVisually arresting but thematically uneven, Gerardo Naranjo's fictional snapshot of a gritty Mexican beach is simply too desperate to shock us.
- 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.
- 50The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisDrama/Mex means to say something about its country of origin, though it’s hard to know exactly what.