Tom Beer Time Out Nov 17, 2011 1/5

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Chris Hewitt St. Paul Pioneer Press Nov 1, 2007 2/4

[Director Gerardo] Naranjo seems to be onto something, even if he doesn't quite get it right this time out.

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Sam Adams Los Angeles Times Aug 16, 2007 2/5

Drama/Mex has flashy style but puppetlike characters and unconvincing stories.

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Prairie Miller WBAI Web Radio Jul 17, 2007

The murky melodrama's vicarious perversions may set a dubious new low standard in cinema - gross-out tragedy.

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Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter Jul 17, 2007

This relentlessly downbeat portrait of numerous troubled characters is ultimately too derivative and familiar for it to connect with art house audiences despite some effective moments and good performances by its mainly youthful cast.

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Kam Williams NewsBlaze Jul 13, 2007 4/4

This morally-ambiguous adventure's cleverly-concealed, parallel powder keg plotlines are sufficiently compelling to keep you riveted to these loco losers' predicaments till the bitter end.

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Pam Grady Reel.com Jul 13, 2007 2.5/4

It is just too bad that the location is far more evocative than the drama itself.

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Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News Jul 13, 2007 2.5/4

Visually arresting but thematically uneven, Gerardo Naranjo's fictional snapshot of a gritty Mexican beach is simply too desperate to shock us.

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Frank Lovece Film Journal International Jul 13, 2007

The turgid pace and shaky camerawork, both seemingly a deliberate style, evaporate whatever cinema-geek enjoyment there might have been.

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Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality & Practice Jul 13, 2007 1/5

A Mexican drama set in Acapulco that revolves around flimsily drawn characters who fail to elicit our empathy.

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Jan Stuart Newsday Jul 12, 2007 2/4

Drama/Mex can't see past its nihilistic little nose.

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Andrew O'Hehir Salon.com Jul 11, 2007

There may be nothing moral or especially original about this movie, but it's got life in it.

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John P. McCarthy Boxoffice Magazine Jul 11, 2007 2.5/5

Writer/director Naranjo is a talent worth keeping an eye on -- provided he can find his own idiom and less predictable subject matter. And it's impossible to take your eyes off the ravishing Garcia in her debut.

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Manohla Dargis New York Times Jul 11, 2007 2/5

Drama/Mexmeans to say something about its country of origin, though it's hard to know exactly what.

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V.A. Musetto New York Post Jul 11, 2007 3/4

You want to hate his characters? Go ahead. You want to feel sympathy for them? That's OK too. In either case, you'll be shaken by Drama/Mex.

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Jim Ridley Village Voice Jul 10, 2007

Amores Perros is a yappy whelp compared to this striking degrees-of-separation drama.

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Donald J. Levit ReelTalk Movie Reviews Jul 8, 2007

'Drama/Mex' fails to supply motivation for or roundness to its unappealing inhabitants, and its two stories lack any reflection to one another.

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Paul Schrodt Slant Magazine Jun 28, 2007 3.5/4

At its heart, Drama/Mex is a story of people struggling to fulfill their roles, and the camera's forceful gaze is their confessional box.

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Jay Weissberg Variety May 25, 2006

An unerring compositional eye plus firm control of an inventive structure keep Drama/Mex well within the attention span, even when the script wanders without seeming to know why.

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