Y Tu Mama Tambien 2001

Critics score:
92 / 100

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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

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Read more

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

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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

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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