Drama/Mex has flashy style but puppetlike characters and unconvincing stories.
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08/16/07
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Drama/Mex (2007)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:4
Rotten:5
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: Lovely visuals can’t save Drama/Mex from its shaky camerawork and thematically uneven plot.
Theatrical Release:Jul 11, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Drama/Mex is a bitter-sweet telling of three intense human relationships stories that are interlaced during one night in contemporary Acapulco. Once upon a time a luxurious port, now in decadence,... [More]
Starring: Fernando Becerril, Juan Pablo Castaneda, Diana Garcia, Miriana Moro
Director: Gerardo Neranjo
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Reviews for Drama/Mex
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Top CriticThis relentlessly downbeat portrait of numerous troubled characters is ultimately too derivative and familiar for it to connect with art house audiences despite some effective moments and good performances by its mainly youthful cast.
07/17/07
Top CriticVisually arresting but thematically uneven, Gerardo Naranjo's fictional snapshot of a gritty Mexican beach is simply too desperate to shock us.
07/13/07
Top CriticDrama/Mex can't see past its nihilistic little nose.
07/12/07
Top CriticThere may be nothing moral or especially original about this movie, but it's got life in it.
07/11/07
Top CriticDrama/Mexmeans to say something about its country of origin, though it's hard to know exactly what.
07/11/07
Top CriticYou 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.
07/11/07
Top CriticAmores Perros is a yappy whelp compared to this striking degrees-of-separation drama.
07/10/07
Top CriticAn 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.
05/25/06
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