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Los Angeles Times | Gary GoldsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

Powerful, profound and beautifully rendered.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Mark FeeneyAdd Critic to Favorites

The best performance here comes from a Mexican child actress, Tessa Ia, as half of one of the fraught mother-daughter relationships.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

Told chronologically, it might have accumulated considerable power. Told as a labyrinthine tangle of intercut timelines and locations, it is a frustrating exercise in self-indulgence by writer-director Guillermo Arriaga.Read the full review

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