Convincing performances, intelligent dialogues, and a particular sense of humor. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 6, 2022

There's a winning truth to this portrayal of emerging adolescent queemess -- as a confusing, awkward, yet compelling urge that's nonetheless easily set aside when a cool video game or fresh pizza is around.

| May 27, 2022

Eimbcke pieces together scenes with Rita and the young boys that are sweet, sensitive, a touch flirty, and sometimes innocently awkward.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 6, 2020

This little gem of a movie, about finding your passion when the lights go out, will leave you with memories of life's tiny, sweet moments...

| May 11, 2020

This Mexican coming of age tale shows itself to be a tender and quirky take on the genre.

| Apr 20, 2020

A refreshingly dramaless miniature canvas

| Aug 30, 2009

The modest film works best for the viewer who goes with its flow of inertia.

| Original Score: B | Jun 24, 2009

Duck Season is definitely worth seeing, but mostly it is worth seeing past, into the future of a promising new filmmaker.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 17, 2007

Above all, a character-driven movie

| Mar 1, 2007

A nuanced, authentic portrait of adolescent ennui and maturation that treats pre-teen emotions with a Jim Jarmusch-ian brand of detached sympathy and bemusement.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 27, 2006

Lovingly cast, suavely directed and always pitched perfectly, whatever its tone, Duck Season is the kind of small, quiet, thoughtful movie that ought to be as abundant as Sunday afternoons.

Full Review | Nov 11, 2006

Watch it passively and you might wonder how it even qualifies as a movie; watch it with your full attention and you will see a charming and surprisingly meaningful look at adolescent angst.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 7, 2006

...for the viewer interested in an amusing, thoughtful, independent, slice-of-life film.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 31, 2006

The fullness of Duck Season is in direct proportion to its smallness; its modesty makes it bloom.

| May 12, 2006

Because it's shot in black and white, involves characters doing bland things in a bland setting, and yet is surprisingly entertaining, you could call this Clerks -- The Mexican Home Edition.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 21, 2006

Effortlessly nonchalant in its observations of kids and the way the world looks to them.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 21, 2006

Runs more on charm than inspiration, but it convincingly conveys something of the terrible, giddy solipsism of adolescence, with its contradictory longings for freedom and security...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 21, 2006

Burn off 87 minutes of your sentence in Hell by sitting through writer-director Eimbcke's B&W dreary dreamscape about (his) a boy's gay awakening.

Full Review | Apr 18, 2006

There are several moments of high, unheralded humor -- although whenever you find yourself laughing, you have to ask yourself if you aren't merely grateful that anything is happening at all.

| Apr 13, 2006

The bemused sympathy we feel is brought about by both young actors doing a fine job with the minimalist material.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 10, 2006