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Jonathan Perry, Boston Globe: Explores the exciting, terrifying complications and limitations of sex, love, power, and loyalty. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The lowest of lowbrow film genres -- the teen sex comedy -- is elevated to lyrical new heights. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Director Alfonso Cuaron has taken familiar and seemingly whimsical material and fashioned it into something much deeper and thought-provoking. Read more
Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: There's an energy to Y Tu Mama Tambien. Much of it comes from the brave, uninhibited performances by its lead actors. Read more
Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: Raunchy, smart, ebullient, melancholy, insightful, surprising, funny, frank and sexy as all get-out. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Fast, funny, unafraid of sexuality and finally devastating. Read more
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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A wonderfully vibrant, contemporary coming-of-age road movie. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Marvelous, merry and, yes, melancholy film. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Manages to be comic, dramatic, erotic, sociological and even political, all without breaking a sweat. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Graced with the kind of social texture and realism that would be foreign in American teen comedies. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Its vision of the road, the rural highways of Mexico in this case, and of sex is profanely funny, sharply observant and visually eloquent. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Sad, funny, sexy, and altogether marvelous. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: If you like sex, you'll like the Mexican hit movie Y Tu Mama Tambien. Read more
Manohla Dargis, L.A. Weekly: Easily one of the sexiest and funniest films about class struggle ever made. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: If adolescent sex comedies in this country were made with brains and soul instead of glands and attitude, they could look a lot like this ribald but touching road movie from Mexico ... Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: The funniest and most emotionally charged erotic road movie since Bertrand Blier's Going Places. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: The ingenious plot alone is worth the price of admission. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It's not as awful as some of the recent Hollywood trip tripe ... but it's far from a groundbreaking endeavor. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Another trumpet blast that there may be a New Mexican Cinema a-bornin'. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: Alfonso Cuaron's sexually explicit Mexican road movie burns with lustful jokes, liberating joy and the pleasure of life itself. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: Frank, funny and true. Read more
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Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Represents a triumphant homecoming for director Cuaron. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: It has the charm of the original American road movies, feasting on the gorgeous, ramshackle landscape of the filmmaker's motherland. Read more