| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

A frantic crime thriller that never transcends its influences to arrive anywhere interesting.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 10, 2004

Will have to settle for being known as the Mexican 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 8, 2004

The blunt attempts at dark humor merely underscore the film's cynicism...

| Original Score: C | Oct 9, 2004

It feels lightweight and forgettable.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 8, 2004

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 7, 2004

Nicotina feels so comfortably middle-of-the-road...that it makes us ponder the purpose of its very existence and makes the task of reviewing it an absolute redundancy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 30, 2004

I suppose Nicotina is a gimmick film, but it's brought off with such verve it's great fun.

| Sep 24, 2004

Skitters between dull and forced, this despite the use of split screens, jaunty music and the personable Luna.

| Sep 24, 2004

While obviously not a unique or uniquely satisfying experience, the film still does the job in a pinch, and looks cool doing it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 10, 2004

Clever and entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 10, 2004

[A] loud, engagingly frenetic black comedy...

Full Review | Sep 6, 2004

After taking way too long to spark its many subplots, "Nicotina" smolders into an addictive romp that is at turns lightweight and grisly

| Original Score: B- | Sep 5, 2004

Rodríguez keeps the story moving with multiple images, quick zooms and other editing tricks that serve as reminders that Nicotina is not to be taken seriously.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 26, 2004

At long last, derivative, ironic Tarantino-esque crime films have made their way to Mexico to mine territory bereft of any fresh material!

Full Review | Aug 24, 2004

The only similarity it bears to the work of Quentin Tarantino is in its propensity for shooting main characters in the head.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2004

For all its zoomy camera work and outrageous mishaps, the film is as stale as a forgotten pack of Pall Malls.

Full Review | Aug 23, 2004

We thankfully seem to have exhausted our Tarantino imitators up here, but apparently they're still at work south of the border.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 23, 2004

Hugely entertaining Mexican crime comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 20, 2004

Director Hugo Rodriguez and writer Martin Salinas must have thought they were on a post-Tarantino edge. Their only edge is the razor slicing open the hoodlum.

| Aug 20, 2004