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04/29/09
A Day Without A Mexican (2004)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:6
Rotten:15
Average Rating:4.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: It seemed like just another day when the residents of California awoke from their peaceful slumber. The usual pink smog filled the air, creating a foggy haze over the mid-morning sunrise as the... [More]
Starring: Yareli Arizmendi, John Getz, Maureen Flannigan
Reviews for A Day Without A Mexican
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08/07/08
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05/06/06
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07/21/05
'Tiene la honestidad de ser una divertida y, por momentos compleja, denuncia de los maltratos y desprecio a los que son sometidos nuestros compatriotas en el extranjero'
04/04/05
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10/19/04
For the first hour director Arau ... and his co-writer and wife, actress Arizmendi, negotiate the story's tricky mix of comedy, social satire and science fiction with surprising aplomb.
09/24/04
As many times you consider A Day Without a Mexican a crude and underdeveloped parody, there are moments that it vindicates itself with on-the-money situations.
09/17/04
The movie in its extended version is frequently muddled, emotionally messy, a little heavy-handed and misses the real opportunity presented by the new format.
09/16/04
Charming if amateurish farce of a movie.
08/27/04
By the film's end, we're more beleaguered than enlightened.
08/26/04
A cheap-looking, one-joke movie that can't get any laughs even in its first telling.
06/09/04
The tone is often that of a preachy after-school special, down to the instructional messages that regularly flash across the screen.
06/04/04
Arau has expanded his satirical short from 1998 into one joke that he solemnly beats to death for 100 minutes.
06/03/04
A promising premise without a successful follow-through...vacillates between preachy tract and bland comedy.
05/25/04
An ambitious, hit-and-miss social satire that doesn't score as many direct hits as it should. But it lands enough punches to get its point across.
05/22/04
Ultimately loses something in the translation from 28 minutes to 97.
05/19/04
Top CriticThe film suffers from low-budget-and-looks-it production values and some ridiculous aspects of the plot, even for a fantasy like this.
05/18/04
This Day not only lacks Mexicans but also good acting, sharp storytelling and humor.
05/15/04
In tripling the original length, the film's delightfully pointed mockumentary aspects are combined with a pallid chain of sketched-in characters reacting to events.
05/14/04
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