It's light at first -- then it gets darkly funny, and then it gets just dark.

| Sep 14, 2019

It's a comedy that intends to be funny, and whose lack of spontaneity creates an antipathy feeling towards the story and the characters. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 28, 2019

Thematically, its tagline statement is the lightning bolt of tension that charges this entire film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2019

a wild and entertaining ride into the darker side of technology and the ominous ways in which we are letting our cell phones not only control us, but to also define us.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 25, 2019

"The result is not the best".

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jan 18, 2019

Perfectos Desconocidos' script is simple and that's why it works. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 16, 2019

Spanish-language dramedy deals with lots of adult topics.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 11, 2019

It's very entertaining in a middlebrow Broadway comedy kind of way.

| Jan 11, 2019

After a few reveals, Perfect Strangers settles into a rhythm, and the suspense fades into expectation.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 11, 2019

Caro, who has proved to be an expert at capturing the inner lives of the Mexican upper middle class, delivers a potent essay of the way in which the more connected we think we are, the less open we tend to be.

| Original Score: B | Jan 11, 2019

Warm, funny and witty with just the right balance of suspense and poignancy.

| Original Score: 8.22/10 | Jan 11, 2019

Maintains narrative interest without ever grabbing the viewer by the lapels.

| Jan 10, 2019

Its focus on our newfound willingness to collect all of our darkest secrets behind such an easily pierced veil... provides for plenty of squeamish entertainment.

| Jan 10, 2019

Once it gets past the admitted cleverness of the premise ... the movie basically becomes little more than a one-set soap opera...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 10, 2019

This deliciously wildly provocative chamber piece is not only universal in its audience appeal, it has clever twists that make for thoroughly engaging entertainment.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 10, 2019

Perfect Strangers takes too much time to get to its big game, but once it kicks into gear, the effect is dizzying.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 10, 2019

This Mexican remake of the Italian film of the same name is clever, entertaining, and highly persuasive, even if the ultimate message or analysis is not as profound as it thinks. A delectable little piece of dinner theater.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 10, 2019

Perfectos Desconocidos (Perfect Strangers) is a gathering of friends for a dinner party but things soon get very intense.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 10, 2019

Manolo Caro's film uses its characters as rigid markers of cowardice, lust, and entitlement.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 10, 2019

The movie is delicately perched between low-key believability and telenovela melodramatics, yet never falls too far to one side.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2019