Critic Reviews
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Peter Hartlaub, Houston Chronicle
Sleep Dealer is flawed, but still vibrant and inventive. Whether he finds larger budgets or keeps doing movie like this, Rivera is definitely a filmmaker to follow.
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Alex Rivera's overstuffed but intriguing feature debut, Sleep Dealer, takes a speculative leap into Tijuana's near future, imagining the next evolution of cheap labor.
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Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
Clearly, Rivera knows one of the great gifts of the sci-fi genre. An uncanny world invites new ways of seeing. It offers new chances to ask the hard -- and too often, hardened -- questions.
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Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
The combination of rusty amateurism, future technology, and clear-and-present politics creates a trippy time-space kick: This dusty little movie feels like yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
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Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Adventurous, ambitious and ingeniously futuristic, Sleep Dealer is a welcome surprise.
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Luis Fernando Penaas Memo Cruz -
Leonor Varelaas Luz Martinez -
Jacob Vargasas Rudy Ramirez
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Tenoch Huerta Mejíaas David Cruz -
Meztli Adaminaas Dolores Cruz -
Jose Concepión Macíasas Miguel Cruz


