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Reviews Counted:94
Fresh:81
Rotten:13
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: This slice-of-life story of a teenage girl in Echo Park is both a sweet crowd-pleaser and a perceptive look at socioeconomic community issues.
Theatrical Release:Aug 4, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $1,540,873
Synopsis: Winner of the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, QUINCEAÑERA is a captivating tale of a teenager facing womanhood. Emily Rios gives a terrific... [More]
Starring: Emily Rios, Jesse Garcia, Chalo Gonzalez, J.R. Cruz
Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
Quinceañera is an engrossing look at modern Mexican-American life in Los Angeles, as well as universal family themes, and buoyed by superb acting, especially from Rios, Garcia and a particularly beatific Gonzalez.
It feels awkward, both in the pat screenplay and the uneven direction.
Top CriticYou realize that, while pretending to break ground, Quinceañera is ultimately stuck in familiar Hollywood formulas.
Top CriticThe picture's transparency of purpose erodes its usefulness as a social auger: we know what's on its mind, but the trip might be worth taking, anyway.
It may be ill-advised to admit that by the last frame, tears filled my eyes. To fulfill my obligation to avoid spoilers, however, I just won't say why.
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[Has]courage to look realistically, instead of idealistically, at some dubious civic practices; and second, honesty about the painful feelings of kids coupled with their desperate need for love and guidance and their ultimate desire to do the right thing.
Top CriticA dramatically forced but culturally vibrant, and ultimately life-embracing, coming-of-age portrait set in a Latino enclave in transition.
Problematic is Rios' central performance… or non-performance. Her Magdalena is too phlegmatic to jibe with the tough, strong-willed individual the yarn calls for.
Sweet, formulaic and forgettable.
Top CriticA delightful, tender, magical, romantic film, Quinceanera should bring a quieting peace to anyone who sees it
A pleasant film that doesn't particularly linger in the memory.
Co-writer/directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland have crafted a small gem, one of those movies from which you emerge feeling happier about the human condition.
The film is suffused with the generous, nonjudgmental spirit of Uncle Tomas, whose live-and-let-live attitude warms like the sun and who helps Magdalena and Carlos make the safe passage from adolescence to maturity.
Top CriticThe movie's appeal is built solidly around its multigenerational portrait of a Mexican-American family, the roots they have put down in Los Angeles and the forces that are pulling them up by those roots.
A sweet and wise little film.
A portrait of adolescents who learn to form makeshift families when their natural ones let them down, and who are too confident and resourceful to wallow in self-pity.
Sometimes, keeping it real is all we ask, and this film gets the job done.
Top CriticQuinceañera, which mixes actors and real Echo Park people, often has an engaging informality about it.
Top CriticAn intelligent, hopeful work. What it doesn't have in flash and outbursts, it trusts to the lived details. Possibility and truth, it asserts gently, convincingly, reside there.
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