Y Tu Mama Tambien Critic Reviews

Metascore®:

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Based upon 14 Critic Reviews
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San Francisco Chronicle | Carla MeyerAdd Critic to Favorites

Frank, funny and true as "Ghost World."Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

One of those movies where "after that summer, nothing would ever be the same again." Yes, but it redefines "nothing."Read the full review

Washington Post | Ann HornadayAdd Critic to Favorites

Part travelogue, part road picture, part meditation on class, mortality and intimacy, this extraordinary little movie might be the perfect harbinger of summer, as astute as it is steamy.Read the full review

USA Today | Claudia PuigAdd Critic to Favorites

Can be taken on many levels, and that's why it works so completely.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites

Echoes the unmistakable freshness and excitement of the Nouvelle Vague, the sense of joy in being alive and making movies, that made those works distinctive and unforgettable.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

Cuaron's hot-blooded, haunting and wildly erotic film revels in the pleasures of the flesh without losing touch with thought and feeling.Read the full review

Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

There are so many good things to say about this film it's hard to find a statement that really nails it. Perhaps we can leave at this: Y Tu Mama Tambien is originality writ large.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

Sad, funny, sexy, and altogether marvelous.Read the full review

The New York Times | Elvis MitchellAdd Critic to Favorites

Director Alfonso Cuarón works with a quicksilver fluidity, and the movie is fast, funny, unafraid of sexuality and finally devastating.Read the full review

Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

It's the way Cuarón demonstrates how a simple teen comedy can suddenly blossom into a study of sexual mores, a Mexican political allegory, a song of lamentation -- and still be breezy and funny and sexy as hell.Read the full review

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