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Metascore
5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlWe Are Mari Pepa is a sweaty, urgent, beautifully honest bliss out.
- 70The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisFor all its enthusiastic vulgarity and truly terrible punk rock, We Are Mari Pepa is a gently endearing portrait of four amiable Mexican teenagers feeling their way toward adulthood.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijThe Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijThough individual scenes feel authentic, the overall structure’s rather loose and there’s not a single narrative throughline. This has several advantages... But it also somewhat diffuses the film’s focus.
- 63Slant MagazineClayton DillardSlant MagazineClayton DillardThe film finally works because of its multitudinous interests in adolescent shell-shock, where paralysis and uncertainty can only be momentarily assuaged through gendered outrage.
- 40The DissolveAndrew LapinThe DissolveAndrew LapinThe film is fitfully amusing but a bit too shapeless, even for a story about slackers.