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Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: The last shot of Zambrano ... is a heartbreaker. Read more
Jay Weissberg, Variety: Mariana Rondon's impressively multilayered drama brings a powerful specificity to the story of a boy and his embittered single mother. Read more
Mike D'Angelo, AV Club: Rondon has clearly made precisely the film she intended to make. As downers go, however, it's lacking in catharsis. Life sucks, and then you cave. Read more
Peter Keough, Boston Globe: Much lies below the surface, and that surface consists in part of on-location shooting of urban desolation that is taken for granted as the characters' lot in life. Read more
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: The psychological drama grows organically out of everyday conflict, and an immersive treatment of the housing project where the characters live. This is an accomplished piece of social realist filmmaking, clear-eyed but tender. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: There's a sense of being trapped that permeates "Bad Hair" - trapped in your own flesh, trapped in circumstances, trapped in the family you're born into. Read more
David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: This miniaturist mosaic provides tender insight into a complicated mother-son relationship. Read more
Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times: The film is anchored by two riveting performances from Castillo and Lange, whose characters are searching for themselves and feeling increasingly desperate as they fail. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: No matter how dire things may get, Pelo malo argues that hope springs eternal. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: "Bad Hair" is an uncomfortably accurate depiction of a poignant mother-son power struggle in a fatherless family in which each knows how to get under the other's skin. Read more
Tom Huddleston, Time Out: Writer-director Mariana Rondon offers a striking new twist on mother-son relationships. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice: There's plenty of prickly tenderness, for both mother and son, at the heart of Bad Hair. Read more