Quinceanera (2006) Critic Reviews

Glatzer and Westmoreland live in Echo Park, and they have given their film a remarkable sense of place.Read the full review

As smart and warmhearted an exploration of an upwardly mobile immigrant culture as American independent cinema has produced.Read the full review

Quinceañera is a spirited and poignant exploration of the bonds and challenges facing a Latino family and the pains of a community undergoing a transition of its own.Read the full review

Quinceañera sketches its characters and conflicts with warmth and empathy.Read the full review

At its core, Quinceañera, a modest but remarkably poignant comedy, is the story of a neighborhood.Read the full review

Quinceañera is a rare bird of an indie, a sharp-eyed analysis of class conflict that still manages to leave you as choked up as a proud auntie on her niece's 15th birthday.Read the full review

This is a fresh, spirited drama, charming and unpretentious. It mines a similar vein to recent Latino-themed pics such as "Raising Victor Vargas" and "Real Women Have Curves."Read the full review

As sweet and gentle as it is, Quinceañera is quite clear-eyed about human cruelty and indifference. In structure, however, there is a circularity to the film that allows it to end on a well-earned upbeat note.Read the full review

It's not fierce, it's not angry, it's not radical, it's polite and what might be called "life-affirming." But it does have a couple of attributes most movies don't.Read the full review