Y Tu Mamá También is a bracing depiction of adolescence’s sudden end.

| Mar 20, 2025

... An embarrassing indulgence for an hour forty-six minutes in sophomoric sexual comments and behavior in a road-trip story lacking imagination.

| Jun 11, 2024

Its tone is absolutely unique -- by turns obnoxious, erotic, funny, world-weary and sad. Sometimes it manages to be all those things at once.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 9, 2023

What could've been a pretentious cinematic treatise on sex and politics in Mexico is instead an astute and genuine film. Give credit to Cuarón's screenplay, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, and especially a trio of excellent lead actors.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 9, 2023

Although the pace is buoyantly charming, Cuarón -- and his screenwriter brother, Carlos Cuarón -- never let the viewer forget that life and death go on outside the car windows.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 9, 2023

[Alfonso Cuarón] has here crafted a wonderfully precise and observant picture that feels as utterly natural and off-handed as a roguish reminiscence between life-long friends.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 9, 2023

Forget Cuarón's transparent attempts to make his movie more meaningful. This is just a down-and-dirty teen fantasy, never shy about its clumsily sexual appeal.

| Original Score: B | Sep 9, 2023

Directed with pizazz by Cuarón, based on an agreeably unpredictable script he wrote with his brother Carlos, Y tu mamá también is a blast of energetic filmmaking, an exuberant romp that breathes new life into the sex comedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 9, 2023

[Gael García Bernal] is especially vivid... We suspect that soon he will be offered roles in American films. But this scintillating film makes a compelling argument that there's a paradise waiting for those who keep traveling south.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 9, 2023

It is Cuarón's answer to the surplus of boneheaded American teen-sex capers that at once romanticize and trivialize juvenile sexuality, and he approaches the subject with refreshing candor.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 9, 2023

This is a movie that bristles with spontaneity and brims with subtext.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 9, 2023

Criticizing this movie for having too much sex is to miss the point. People will either accept the scenes or not, but Y tu mamá también suffers from a far worse affliction: There's not a single likeable character in the movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 9, 2023

Cuarón, who employed magic realism to weave a spell in A Little Princess, now uses an almost documentary style to set out a story that is very far from a romantic fairy tale.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 9, 2023

It embraces passion, both physical and emotional, but it has depths that register only when the end credits roll.

| Sep 9, 2023

What originally appears to be a Mexican version of a raunchy teen sex comedy reveals itself to be not only the best foreign language film released this year, but also the best film, period.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 9, 2023

In any event, it still plays out like a generic male fantasy without sufficient dramatic motivation.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 9, 2023

Cuarón is obviously working in well-trod territory, the coming-of-age genre. But everything about the film is so vibrantly conceived that nothing seems familiar.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 9, 2023

Yes, [Y tu mamá también] is as sexually explicit and ferociously frank as you've heard. The film is also a provocative, corrosively funny statement on class distinction in Mexico, however, and a scathingly honest account of adolescent sexual obsession.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 9, 2023

Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón delivers a ribald, fiercely funny and genuinely disturbing coming-of-age tale steeped in sex. It's beautifully acted; what's more, it may be one of the most accurate depictions ever of adolescent boys.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 9, 2023

Any serious intentions are lost amid the sex, booze and crude banter. Regardless of the setting, this is just another teen sex comedy in which titillation has priority over edification.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 9, 2023