- Summary: A modern-day Don Juan is forced to reevaluate his bedroom behavior when a scorned lover decides to take revenge. (IFC First Take)
- Director: Alfonso Cuarón
- Genre(s): Comedy, Romance
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 4
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Mixed: 2 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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75The women are all beautiful; and the camerawork - by Emmanuel Lubezki, who shot Terrence Malick's spectacular "The New World" - is eye-pleasing.
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75Banned for many years in director/cowriter Alfonso Cuaron's native Mexico, his debut feature is a bawdy comedy that pivots on the comeuppance of a serial philanderer.
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50Mr. Cuarón never quite finds the tone that would allow him to fuse belly laughs with the horror of illness and death, but then perhaps Pedro Almodóvar is the only filmmaker able to mix darkness and light in that way. Still it is hard not to admire the younger man's cheeky self-confidence, and hard not to enjoy the dexterity of his camera movements and the flair with which he attempts both low comedy and high melodrama.
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40The film is more stale than crisp, with dialogue that is at least 50 percent old aphorisms, homilies, and clichés.