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Duck Season
Warner Independent Pictures
MPAA RATING: R for language and some drug content
Starring
Enrique Arreola,
Diego Cataño,
Daniel Miranda,
Danny Perea,
Carolina Politi,
Antonio Zúñiga,
Alfredo Escobar,
and
Sara Castro
An unlikely foursome stumble upon little revelations and insights into the kind of youthful longing that stays with one well past adolescence. (Warner Independent Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Foreign
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Fernando Eimbcke
Paula Markovitch
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Fernando Eimbcke
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 29, 2006
Theatrical: March 10, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
90 minutes, B/W |
| ORIGIN: |
Mexico |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Spanish (with English subtitles) |
Original title "Temporada de Patos"; Grand Jury Prize, 2004 AFI Fest; Nominated, Best Foreign Film (Mexico), 2006 Independent Spirit Awards

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
It's one of the small, pitch-perfect treasures of the movie year.

100
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A quiet, loopy gem, Duck Season is a goofball celebration of old friends, new beginnings, adolescent freedom, and baked goods laced with a little something extra.

100
Baltimore Sun
John Anderson
Almost everything that happens - and almost everything happens within Flama's apartment - is food for dry humor and very recognizable humanity.

91
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Duck Season unfolds with a slaphappy logic that only looks casual. In fact, every unfinished conversation and banal picture on the wall (one's of ducks) matters as four little people share one memorable little day.

90
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Inside this small canvas - almost the entire film unfolds in the one apartment - Mr. Eimbcke turns each character into an epic.

88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
A highly satisfying miniature. Its subject may be adolescence, and some of its pot-smoking, kick-back humor is adolescent too--in a good way. But the film's calm and witty visual rhythm offers a rueful awareness of time passing and of time wasted, in ways that people tend not to appreciate fully until long after they've wasted it.

83
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Mexican writer-director Fernando Eimbcke got his start in short films and documentaries, and his first feature reveals a gift for concision: It doesn't overexert itself trying to come to big conclusions about these characters, and even the comedic scenes settle for gentle quirks over broad guffaws.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Director Fernando Eimbcke, in an extraordinary debut, never expresses contempt for his characters. By examining their inner lives with compassion and respect, he inspires us to do the same.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Sometimes a film about nothing can be a film about everything; a film without overwhelmingly dramatic events can delight you more than an outsized epic. The sly and disarming Duck Season is such a film.

80
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
The lovely, unpredictable comedy Duck Season marks the arrival of a fresh talent in writer-director Fernando Eimbcke. His script is vibrant with unforced humanist observations, the performances are natural and endearing.

75
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Slow but charming film.

75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
It's about the kind of kids who could never sit still enough, unfortunately, for a movie that perfectly captures the frustrations, longings, obsessions and torments of the awkward years before manhood.

75
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A hilariously deadpan black-and-white slacker comedy, Duck Season is sort of like "Wayne's World" directed by a Mexican Jim Jarmusch.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Not very much really happens in Duck Season, but in its rich details, it remembers how absorbing and endless every single day can seem when you're 14.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Neva Chonin
The beauty of Duck Season is its insistence that profound human experiences can arrive slowly, in incremental packages, scattered over the course of an average Sunday.

75
Premiere
Ethan Alter
Some viewers will wonder what exactly it is they are supposed to be laughing at, but those that do find themselves on the movie's wavelength will enjoy its observational approach to comedy.

75
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The Mexican writer-director Fernando Eimbcke attempts to give this story a melancholy overlay, but its main interest is in its confirmation that teenagers are pretty much the same everywhere.

75
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Warm, winning and clever.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
The spirits of Jim Jarmusch and Kevin Smith hover over this breezy slacker comedy set on a comatose Sunday afternoon.

70
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Duck Season is something quite different, capable of gratifying film snobs and regular viewers alike.

70
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Duck Season is not (yet) the work of a great filmmaker, but it's the kind of movie in which a fledgling director traps his talent in a bottle and saves it for next time.

70
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
The fullness of Duck Season is in direct proportion to its smallness; its modesty makes it bloom.

70
Variety
David Rooney
This slight but appealing film's funky eccentricity feels a little contrived at times.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
Not in recent memory has a movie so short – 90 minutes on the nose – been so stagnant and stubbornly slow to build. And that's exactly the point.

60
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The characters' behavior isn't always believable, and the jerky rhythm takes some getting used to (there may be more attitude here than observation). But the defiant absence of any conventional plot has a cumulative charm.

50
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Shot in silvery black-and-white, Duck Season is not charmless, just insubstantial.

40
Film Threat
Phil Hall
Sometimes Duck Season is amusing. More often, though, it is boring and icky.


The average user rating for this movie is 8.3 (out of 10) based on 15 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Rcardo R. gave it a10: A MASTERPIECE the best film in Spanish since Y Tu Mama Tambien & Amores Perros. Just saw it, and I was really amazed, the screenplay is great, the performances magistral.... FERNANDO EIMBCKE: let's remember his name oh! best film so far along with Little miss Sunshine & United 93
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