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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80EmpireAdam SmithEmpireAdam SmithSurely cinema's first Mexican social-realist cannibal horror drama, it's grimly funny and at times horribly effective stuff. Ickily excellent.
- 75The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsMixing social commentary and black humor with copious amounts of blood and cracking bones, We Are What We Are offers a cannibal's-eye view of Mexico City's seamier side.
- 75Like zombie auteur George Romero at his best, Grau locks his sights on his social commentary of choice and goes after it with the zeal of a 19-year-old cannibal girl sinking an ax into the skull of her next meal. The result is messy, but it makes more than a meal.
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoMorbidly funny art-house horror tale.
- 70Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanThis promising first feature is nearly as apt to use the power of suggestion as to ladle up the gore, triumphantly creepy, and just arty enough to have secured a slot in last year's New York Film Festival.
- 70The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThis ghastly scenario of poor preying on poor is, like the film's gray-green palette, profoundly depressing and entirely pitiless.
- 40New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThis gruesome, allegorical drama is dark and unsettling, but not so original that it begs to be let in.
- 40Boxoffice MagazineJohn P. McCarthyBoxoffice MagazineJohn P. McCarthyA superficially provocative movie that tries way too hard to be memorable. Horror aficionados will be tantalized before walking away unsatisfied.
- 20Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichYou can practically taste the grime in Jorge Michel Grau's art-house horror show-the film looks like it's been slathered with gooey discards from a backyard barbecue.