Feels scattered, and inept, and takes a golden opportunity slamming it into the floor.

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 6, 2006

'Tiene la honestidad de ser una divertida y, por momentos compleja, denuncia de los maltratos y desprecio a los que son sometidos nuestros compatriotas en el extranjero'

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2005

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 19, 2004

For the first hour director Arau ... and his co-writer and wife, actress Arizmendi, negotiate the story's tricky mix of comedy, social satire and science fiction with surprising aplomb.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 24, 2004

As many times you consider A Day Without a Mexican a crude and underdeveloped parody, there are moments that it vindicates itself with on-the-money situations.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 17, 2004

The movie in its extended version is frequently muddled, emotionally messy, a little heavy-handed and misses the real opportunity presented by the new format.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 16, 2004

Charming if amateurish farce of a movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 27, 2004

By the film's end, we're more beleaguered than enlightened.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2004

A cheap-looking, one-joke movie that can't get any laughs even in its first telling.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 9, 2004

The tone is often that of a preachy after-school special, down to the instructional messages that regularly flash across the screen.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 4, 2004

Arau has expanded his satirical short from 1998 into one joke that he solemnly beats to death for 100 minutes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 3, 2004

A promising premise without a successful follow-through...vacillates between preachy tract and bland comedy.

| Original Score: C- | May 25, 2004

An ambitious, hit-and-miss social satire that doesn't score as many direct hits as it should. But it lands enough punches to get its point across.

| Original Score: B | May 22, 2004

Ultimately loses something in the translation from 28 minutes to 97.

Full Review | May 19, 2004

The film suffers from low-budget-and-looks-it production values and some ridiculous aspects of the plot, even for a fantasy like this.

| May 18, 2004

This Day not only lacks Mexicans but also good acting, sharp storytelling and humor.

| Original Score: C- | May 15, 2004

In tripling the original length, the film's delightfully pointed mockumentary aspects are combined with a pallid chain of sketched-in characters reacting to events.

Full Review | May 14, 2004

A film content to let some mild comedy carry its straightforward message rather than trying to say something more profound.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 14, 2004