Quinceañera sketches its characters and conflicts with warmth and empathy.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter
Life-affirming without being saccharine and enormously entertaining, film could be one of those rare specialty pictures that crossover to a mainstream audience.
This is a fresh, spirited drama, charming and unpretentious. It mines a similar vein to recent Latino-themed pics such as "Raising Victor Vargas" and "Real Women Have Curves."
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Village Voice
Village Voice
Saucy, rowdy, heartfelt, and terribly sweet movie.
As sweet and gentle as it is, Quinceañera is quite clear-eyed about human cruelty and indifference. In structure, however, there is a circularity to the film that allows it to end on a well-earned upbeat note.