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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 80
    Village Voice |

    "Amores Perros" is a yappy whelp compared to this striking degrees-of-separation drama by Mexican writer-director Gerardo Naranjo. Read full review

  • 75
    The Onion A.V. Club |

    In many ways, Drama/Mex is a typical Irritu-style mlange of souls in crisis, bouncing off each other in unexpected ways. Read full review

  • 75
    New York Post | V.A. Musetto

    You want to hate his characters? Go ahead. You want to feel sympathy for them? That's OK too. In either case, you'll be shaken by Drama/Mex. Read full review

  • 70
    Salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir

    Gerardo Naranjo's deliriously trashy Drama/Mex may not do much to burnish the international prestige of Mexican cinema, but it's an entertaining blend of obvious influences, from softcore cable-TV porn to Tarantino to "Less Than Zero" and "Leaving Las Vegas." Read full review

  • 70
    Variety |

    An unerring compositional eye plus firm control of an inventive structure keep Drama/Mex well within the attention span, even when the script wanders without seeming to know why. Read full review

  • 63
    New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman

    Visually arresting but thematically uneven, Gerardo Naranjo's fictional snapshot of a gritty Mexican beach is simply too desperate to shock us. Read full review

  • 60
    Los Angeles Times |

    Skipping from one story to another and scrambling their relative chronologies, Drama/Mex presents a flashy package, but that only reveals the paucity of its ideas. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    Drama/Mex means to say something about its country of origin, though it's hard to know exactly what. Read full review

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