It plays like a dreamy, structurally fractured Richard Linklater homage to the French new wave.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2015

Seek this one out, then make a friend happy by forcing them to see it too.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2015

A very smart debut.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2015

"Güeros" is brutal, ironic, madcap, and grim.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 17, 2015

As self-aware black-and-white, nouvelle-vague-tribute fever dreams go, Güeros is surprisingly beautiful, inventive and convincing.

| Sep 15, 2015

Handsomely shot by Damian Garcia in full-frame black-and-white, Güeros is at times both painfully arty and arbitrarily plotted.

| Sep 15, 2015

Whimsical, mysterious and subtly tragic ...

| May 27, 2015

As a whole, Gueros does not hang together at all. But its pieces are intriguing enough to warrant a look for fans of stylish visual filmmaking.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 27, 2015

Agreeable this film certainly is, but the shagginess never seems to take shape.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2015

Every five minutes or so, Ruizpalacios comes up with something strikingly expressionistic.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 20, 2015

Even if Güeros doesn't entirely work, it feels worthy: a film made independently and without interference whose reverence for the past thankfully doesn't result in too much solemnity or seriousness.

| Original Score: B | May 20, 2015

More than perhaps any other country, Mexico has lobbed some real cinematic intelligence onto the world stage in recent years. "Güeros" continues that salutary tradition.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 20, 2015

There's no reverie Alonso Ruizpalacios's Güeros can't shatter, no presumed truth it can't complicate, no expectation of closure it won't dash.

| May 19, 2015

"Güeros" is like a flip-book history lesson, one that evokes the pain and comedy - the pop, the politics, the tedium and the momentousness - of a particular moment in the endless, cyclical chronicles of youth and disillusionment.

| May 19, 2015

By all indications, Ruizpalacios still seems to be finding his voice, and yet this modest little movie does seem to have its finger on the pulse.

| Apr 7, 2015

The film's droll humor and unexpected twists go a long way towards sustaining audience interest, even if the film goes from homage into self-conscious parody territory several times,

| Apr 7, 2015

The film's social commentary unspools quietly in the background while the narrative focuses on the ennui, free-floating anxiety, and inchoate longing for meaning experienced by two or three privileged young people from the middle- to upper-middle classes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 16, 2014