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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Alex Rivera's overstuffed but intriguing feature debut, Sleep Dealer, takes a speculative leap into Tijuana's near future, imagining the next evolution of cheap labor. Read more
Logan Hill, New York Magazine/Vulture: [This] lo-fi sci-fi debut is jam-packed with sly satirical gestures that more than compensate for its more-traditional shortcomings. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The combination of rusty amateurism, future technology, and clear-and-present politics creates a trippy time-space kick: This dusty little movie feels like yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Adventurous, ambitious and ingeniously futuristic, Sleep Dealer is a welcome surprise. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, Houston Chronicle: Sleep Dealer is flawed, but still vibrant and inventive. Whether he finds larger budgets or keeps doing movie like this, Rivera is definitely a filmmaker to follow. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Clearly, Rivera knows one of the great gifts of the sci-fi genre. An uncanny world invites new ways of seeing. It offers new chances to ask the hard -- and too often, hardened -- questions. Read more
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Justin Chang, Variety: Despite some clever virtual-reality concepts and projections about the next frontier of globalization, Alex Rivera's ambitious directing debut lacks the vision, or the budget, to pull off its fusion of sci-fi and aspirational saga. Read more
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice: From the imperialist villains and their humanitarian abuses to the laborers dying on their feet, what's so clever about tricking out this worn-out tale of woe into a genre flick? Read more