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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghOnly Rejtman's sharp eye for absurd detail and the bleakly subtle joke separates comedy from tragedy in this story of listless Bonaerenses chasing their own tails through successive drab rings of urban hell.
- 63New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanHe may earn his living as a cab driver, but the blank hero of Martín Rejtman's sardonic Argentinean comedy is perfectly content to hitch his way through life.
- 60Film ThreatFilm ThreatWhile the film suffers from a forced absurdity meant to invoke comedy and laughs along with a sluggish pacing, Rejtman captures the grim monotony of life well.
- 60VarietyVarietySporadically charming and quite amusing, but torpidly paced.
- 60Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanMartin Rejtman's 1999 "Silvia Prieto" fashioned a deadpan farce from the aimless circulation of objects and identities around its unsmiling title character. The Magic Gloves, the Argentine writer-director's 2003 follow-up, is a similarly absurdist smart-com featuring another depressed protag navigating a yuppie Buenos Aires milieu.
- 30The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisA limp urban comedy not nearly as whimsical as its title.