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65 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jim Ridley
    80
    "Amores Perros" is a yappy whelp compared to this striking degrees-of-separation drama by Mexican writer-director Gerardo Naranjo.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    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.
  3. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not credited)
    75
    In many ways, Drama/Mex is a typical Iñárritu-style mélange of souls in crisis, bouncing off each other in unexpected ways.
  4. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    70
    Gerardo 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."
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Jay Weissberg
    70
    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.
  6. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    63
    Visually arresting but thematically uneven, Gerardo Naranjo's fictional snapshot of a gritty Mexican beach is simply too desperate to shock us.
  7. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Sam Adams
    60
    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.
  8. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    50
    Drama/Mex means to say something about its country of origin, though it's hard to know exactly what.
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