Somos lo que hay 2010

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Unfolding in an impoverished neighborhood in Mexico City, this disturbing debut paints social decay with bold, elegant strokes and dizzying camera angles. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: The characters' rapacious tendencies exist in a void, so all we get is numbing, meaningless viscera. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: Grau effectively mixes wry, bloody, deadpan gags, family drama, and stomach-churning violence. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: An unexpectedly rich exploration of family bonds, blood rituals and the oftentimes zombie-like desire to assume the roles proscribed to each of us, played out with a sharp undertow of political allegory and darkly comic sensibility. Read more

Ian Buckwalter, NPR: Like zombie auteur George Romero at his best, Grau locks his sights on his social commentary of choice and goes after it with the zeal of a 19-year-old cannibal girl sinking an ax into the skull of her next meal. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Grau's script is intelligent, and it has something to say about family and social dysfunction. You just might want to skip meat for a few days. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: While it concerns itself with the gruesome logistics of finding bodies to be ritually sacrificed and chopped into bite-size pieces, Grau's hybrid film achieves a morbid fascination that is reinforced by Santiago Sanchez's artfully scuzzy cinematography. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: We Are What We Are is a darkly comic social allegory as well as an atmospheric little genre flick. Read more