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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- Misses opportunities to add much substance to the debate over immigration reform. Instead, it strings together the views of a few law enforcement officials, legal experts, agriculture industry representatives, politicians, one "coyote," or human smuggler, and others hailing from the south Texas town of Laredo.
- A rich opportunity is squandered with Laredoans Speak, a documentary of laudable aspirations suffering from its pronounced sympathies.
- 40VarietyRonnie ScheibVarietyRonnie ScheibSome six or seven men (women conspicuously absent), including a mayor, an immigration lawyer, a congressman and a "coyote," offer views on immigration. Unfortunately, they all say the same thing -- and it's nothing new, affecting or articulate.
- 40Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe movie's argument only occasionally transcends its oozy nonspecificity and feel-good bleeding-heart vibe.
- 0Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenLaredoans Speak is bad in a special kind of way that inspires the obviously piteous description of "well-intentioned."