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Rudo y Cursi
Metascore
67 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    83
    The intimate movie hums with a back-in-the-hood vibe that gets the two stars playing contentedly, and delightfully, for the love of local filmmaking.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    80
    Rudo y Cursi is as fatalistic as any film noir, but it's played for cartoonish screwball comedy. At once smooth and frantic, filled with cozy clutter and vulgar jive, the movie subsumes its moralizing in frat-house entertainment.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    80
    Mexico has had its share of debilitating transnational news lately, but the arrival of the puckishly entertaining, fleet-of-foot drama-comedy Rudo y Cursi deserves a hearty welcome.
  4. Newsweek
    Reviewed by: David Ansen
    80
    Hilarious, satirical and melancholy, Rudo y Cursi may not go as deep as "Y Tu Mamá También," but it has a similar vivacity. It turns this tale of brotherly bonds and sibling rivalry--a veiled allegory of the Cuarón boys themselves?--into one of the year's most memorable offerings.
  5. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Joe Morgenstern
    80
    Mr. Cuarón directs with a hand that's as sure as it is deft. The music is terrific, though I can't say the same for the fusty subtitles, and Adam Kimmel's cinematography bathes the movie's cheerful absurdities in a beautiful glow.
  6. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    75
    Luna and García Bernal display the kind of chemistry that makes you overlook the clichés in the script by first-time director Carlos Cuarón. Sometimes good-natured fun is enough.
  7. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    This is not a deep movie, but it's a broad one. It reunites three talents who had an enormous hit with "Y Tu Mama Tambien": actors Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, and Carlos Cuaron, who wrote that film and writes and directs this one. Instead of trying to top themselves with life and poignancy, they wisely do something for fun.
  8. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Connie Ogle
    75
    Fierce, profane and hilarious comedy.
  9. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    75
    That the fantasy comes crashing back to earth seems all but inevitable. That Rudo y Cursi doesn't crash in the process - that's muy bien.
  10. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    75
    Rudo y Cursi (which roughly translates to tough and corny) is more raucous and slight than the contemplative "Y Tu Mama," but it is an undeniably entertaining rags-to-riches-to-rags comedy.
  11. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    75
    Rudo y Cursi is a grave and calculated affront to the men of Mexico, and that's the source of its roistering charm.
  12. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Shawn Levy
    75
    It's a film that gently spoofs such cultural staples as ranchera music, illegal gambling, labor exploitation and tabloid media. And it's the sort of film that sneaks serious themes and emotions in just when you think it's about to dissolve into farce. Small but largely satisfying.
  13. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    75
    Carlos Cuaron's otherwise terrific new comedy Rudo Y Cursi barely survives its third-act "Goodfellas" descent into seedy coke-and-crime drama.
  14. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    75
    The rags-to-riches-to-rags trajectory is shopworn, but the sibling rivalries are cantankerous and goofy and Bernal's Tato, who fancies himself a pop singing star, wouldn't make the first cut on "American Idol."
  15. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Duane Byrge
    70
    Rudo y Cursi scores from every angle -- comic, personal and cross-cultural.
  16. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Scott Knopf
    70
    What Cuarón and friends have done is made a cute genre film. What's the harm in that? I'm sure Bernal will be back to his edgy roots soon enough.
  17. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    70
    While the film is lively and engaging, it also, in the end, feels a little thin, largely because it is unsure of how earnestly to treat its own lessons about fate, ambition and brotherly love.
  18. Variety
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    70
    Picture scores a solid goal for its national cinema and the cause of comedy.
  19. Slate
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    60
    Carlos Cuarón's screenplay is rambling and unstructured but full of vibrant dialogue. As in "Y Tu Mamá También," the insults the two leads hurl at one another are creatively filthy.
  20. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    50
    An occasionally amusing but strained fable about the dangers and delights of sibling rivalry that asks us to believe (for instance) that soccer scouts roam Mexico looking for 30-year-old recruits.
  21. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Stephen Cole
    50
    It's really a lazy comedy that is content telling a crude and corny Hollywood story with a Mexican accent.
  22. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    50
    Living up to its title, Rudo y Cursi is appealingly tough and corny but contains little that causes these elements to congeal into anything greater.
  23. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Dan Zak
    50
    Enjoyable but forgettable.
  24. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    50
    Run-of-the mill drama.
  25. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    40
    Luna and Bernal have amiability, but not enough to earn a recommendation for this clichéd movie.
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