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56 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
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  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    The film is built around two relationships, both touching, both emotionally true.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Tasha Robinson
    75
    The acting is impeccable, with Hernandez radiating an air of sleazy charm and Ochoa doing terrific work as a bitter man who's just lonely enough to have chinks in his well-developed armor.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    Zalla constructs a suspenseful movie with no intention of sugarcoating the daily hardships of New York's underclass.
  4. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    75
    An intriguing, if flawed mystery set in the shadowy subterranean world of undocumented Mexican immigrants.
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    70
    Intricately and imaginatively structured, building to a powerful climax of complex irony.
  6. The New Republic
    Reviewed by: Stanley Kauffmann
    70
    And Jesus Ochoa, the veteran actor who plays Diego, makes us jealous of Mexico. How easily powerful he is, how complex without pretense.
  7. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    60
    The result is contrived, but compelling--as is the movie's high-powered humanism.
  8. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    58
    The film seems even more one-note when compared to the recent indie feature "Chop Shop," which also follows young immigrant hustlers in NYC, yet takes the time to provide a fuller picture of the city and its opportunities. Zalla prefers to wallow in the dead-end, an approach that's initially powerful, then numbing.
  9. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    50
    Zalla, a graduate of Columbia's film school, is talented and single-minded. He needs to lighten up, literally. He frames his characters to bring out all their sweaty desperation, and his palette is dark with splashes of muddy brown; even the street scenes look as if they were shot in a dungeon.
  10. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    40
    The movie shows the city as both an intimidating and enticing place for new arrivals, but ultimately gets bogged down in the cliched split destinies and intentions of its main characters.
  11. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    40
    Although it exhibits a heartfelt connection with the city's half-invisible population of illegal immigrants, its myriad inconsistencies and strained plotting are increasingly frustrating.
  12. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    40
    Ochoa is such a masterful actor that he makes things fairly interesting despite the script, with Hernandez and Espindola well-cast as two young men operating by different moral compasses.
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