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100One of those movies where "after that summer, nothing would ever be the same again." Yes, but it redefines "nothing."
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100Raunchy, smart, ebullient, melancholy, insightful, surprising, funny, frank and sexy as all get-out.
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100That rare thing, a Hollywood teen flick transfigured into something like pubescent scripture: In the beginning, there was lust; in the end, there is knowledge.
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Frank, funny and true as "Ghost World."
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100Can be taken on many levels, and that's why it works so completely.
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100A great, lusty movie in the tradition of Bertrand Blier's "Going Places."
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100Sad, funny, sexy, and altogether marvelous.
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100Teems with pot smoke, body parts and profane outbursts -- you ride a giggly wave throughout, jokes and turn-ons and shocking sights alternating in buoyant fashion.
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100A vivid, thoughtful, unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.
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100One of the most joyous movies I've ever seen, and one of the handful of great erotic films the movies have given us.
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100Cuaron's hot-blooded, haunting and wildly erotic film revels in the pleasures of the flesh without losing touch with thought and feeling.
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100Echoes the unmistakable freshness and excitement of the Nouvelle Vague, the sense of joy in being alive and making movies, that made those works distinctive and unforgettable.
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100Give yourself away to this movie and you'll be glad you did.
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100Part travelogue, part road picture, part meditation on class, mortality and intimacy, this extraordinary little movie might be the perfect harbinger of summer, as astute as it is steamy.
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100There are so many good things to say about this film it's hard to find a statement that really nails it. Perhaps we can leave at this: Y Tu Mama Tambien is originality writ large.
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90The funniest and most emotionally charged erotic road movie since Bertrand Blier's "Going Places."
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90Director Alfonso Cuarón works with a quicksilver fluidity, and the movie is fast, funny, unafraid of sexuality and finally devastating.
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90The eroticism in Cuaron’s road movie (which broke all box-office records in Mexico) is the real deal: tactile, sexy, psychologically charged.
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90It's the way Cuarón demonstrates how a simple teen comedy can suddenly blossom into a study of sexual mores, a Mexican political allegory, a song of lamentation -- and still be breezy and funny and sexy as hell.
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90A genuine rarity: a sex comedy with brains.
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88Unabashedly frank in its depiction of sex -- too frank, probably, for more discreet viewers -- but it's never exploitive or seedy.
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88Like watching an American teen-sex comedy through a glass darkly.
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88Sensual, funny, and moving film.
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88"You're so lucky to live in Mexico," Luisa says. "Look at it -- it breathes with life." So does Y Tu Mama Tambien, both the pant of passion and shuddering sigh of regret.
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80In the wild and consistently surprising Y Tu Mamá También, anything isn't the half of it.
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80If this sounds like an old-fashioned sex comedy, it is -- sexy, for sure, and funny, in wild spurts.
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80In elevating bawdy teen farce to political metaphor without squeezing the fun out, Alfonso Cuarón has pulled off a nice little miracle.
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75Director Alfonso Cuaron ("A Little Princess") gets vivid, convincing performances from a fine cast, and generally keeps things going at a rapid pace.
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70For what could easily have been a slickly vulgar variation on "American Pie" or "Porky's", this libidinous comedy explores some unusually complicated territory, and benefits greatly from Verdú's unpredictable performance as Luisa.
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70It has the charm of the original American road movies, feasting on the gorgeous, ramshackle landscape of the filmmaker's motherland.
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70There is plenty to inflame in this picture and nothing to corrupt. [18 Mar 2002. p.152]
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63It's often diverting and occasionally funny, but it's ultimately inconsequential.
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60The story is set in real world Mexico, not a cleaned-up movie world simulacrum.
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50Too much repetition and an unconvincing finale take a toll on the film's overall effectiveness.
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40The film's biggest limitation is its oversexed, underdeveloped male duo. Playing like a south-of-the-border version of Beavis and Butt-head, the teenagers have but one thought in their heads.
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SamS.10Very good film. Better than I thought it would be. Storyline is excellent.