Friday, Dec. 21, 2001

Amores Perros

Director Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu makes the year's most exciting debut in a movie that intricately intertwines three stories about the lives of the people — and their distinctly anti-Disney dogs — involved in a car crash. Bleakly funny, his film is a deeply unsettling portrait of dangerous, beautiful Mexico City and of the human nature that shares its traits.