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Romántico
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68 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
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  1. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    80
    If this terrific documentary doesn't adjust your idea of what it means to have a hard life and a good attitude, you haven't been paying attention.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jordan Harper
    80
    Following a hardworking, goodhearted man as life beats the hell out of him, this documentary is moving almost to the point of exploitation.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Sam Adams
    80
    Pain, poetry and perseverance form the backbone of Mark Becker's compassionate, well-observed documentary.
  4. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    75
    The value of Romantico is that it lets us experience vicariously what Carmelo and others like him go through.
  5. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    75
    It will be a long time before you forget the deep pain etched into the weary face of Carmelo Muñiz, the mariachi singer at the center of Mark Becker's immensely moving documentary.
  6. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    75
    Mark Becker's Romantico is beautifully realized on old-fashioned film. And that's only part of its charms.
  7. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    75
    A modest documentary, small in scope and ambition, but it achieves one of the higher callings of art in that it forces viewers to look at a something in a newer, deeper and more humane way.
  8. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    75
    The musician is candid about his own demons and gives the filmmakers access to his wife, two very different daughters, and, for a nicely done montage, his family photographs.
  9. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    70
    Engrossing pic is impressively shot, edited and scored.
  10. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Daniel Wible
    60
    Works best as a beautifully executed and inspirational work of self-sacrifice.
  11. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    60
    This modest, unassuming documentary about an illegal Mexican immigrant living in San Francisco is a case study of a life defined by poverty.
  12. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Peter Margasak
    50
    Carmelo, the central figure, returns home when his mother's health begins to decline, and his love of family, something of an abstraction in the first part, leaves him deeply divided: he wants to care for them personally, but he can better provide for them by returning to the U.S.
  13. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Tasha Robinson
    50
    There's nothing extraordinary about mariachi singer Carmelo Muñiz Sánchez, and nothing extraordinary about Mark Becker's documentary profile Romántico.
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