Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Stylistically, the film takes risks before veering into an odd sort of studied artiness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2008

While there are rewards to sticking with this tempest-in-teapot saga of sexual awakening across three family generations of Mexican-American women, its pacing is leisurely to the brink of stasis.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2008

Another victory for a first-time, full-length feature filmmaker with a curious, inventive eye and an unsparing point of view.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Pena has a great role and delivers her best performance since Lone Star in 1996.

| Aug 1, 2008

Riedel reveals herself to be a novice filmmaker, especially in the pacing of most scenes.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 24, 2008

A lovingly crafted portrait of a kind of life not often seen on the big screen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2008

Like Blanca and her friends, walking languidly down the street, then spontaneousy grabbing a shopping cart for a ride, Reidel plays with the rhythm of her enjoyably unhurried tale.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 13, 2008

Although the story is overly familiar, Riedel's evocation of small-town life rings true.

| May 21, 2008

This is a movie with wonderful, strong performances from three very talented women.

Full Review | May 20, 2008

It's a smart little film, although there are some odd cinematographic moments --- curious, at best. And at two hours plus, the movie runs at least 20 minutes too long.

Full Review | May 20, 2008

Leisurely paced but lovely and touching.

Full Review | May 19, 2008

If your taste is for movies off the beaten path, run out and see this one before it disappears.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 17, 2008

A tenderly spun tale of female sexual desire traversing three generations of Latina women north of the border, the movie is crafted glowingly from a woman's point of view, and with supreme sensitivity, dignity, warmth, sadness and humor.

| May 16, 2008

With the Garcia Girls, Riedel will take the right audiences someplace this summer.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 16, 2008

Riedel's film is a breakthrough achievement and a hopeful sign of more to come.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 16, 2008

The film is sensitively told and appealingly bittersweet, though the story at times meanders and loses its way.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 16, 2008

Garcia Riedel is affectionate toward her characters to a fault - cameras linger as they walk down the street or make other prosaic moves, dragging the already sluggish story's pacing even more -- but she does get some lovely behavior out of each actress.

Full Review | May 16, 2008

With equal measures of discretion and honesty, Riedel directly addresses the sensuality of all three women, achieving an almost startling sense of intimacy in scenes that range from mesmerizingly intense and gently comical.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 16, 2008

Writer-director Georgina Garcia Riedel makes inventive use of the wide-screen format in this gentle, poetic 2005 comedy.

| May 16, 2008