El Cantante Reviews

Movie Reviews

• Nothing gets explored at length, and some key points are glossed over altogether

  Review rate : C by Mario Tarradell [Dallas Morning News ]

• It may be best to approach "El Cantante" less as a movie than as a two-hour promotional video for a must-have soundtrack album

  by A.O. Scott [NY Times ]

• Ichaso?s direction is flashy but empty

  by Lewis Beale [Film Journal International ]

• a frenzied and paper-thin attempt to lionize beloved salsa singer Hector Lavoe

  by Sean O'Connell [Filmcritic.com ]

• a curiously sludgy cross between a Doomed Star biopic and a J. Lo vanity project

  by Ty Burr [Boston Globe ]
• Reviewed by Carrie Rickey [Philadelphia Inquirer ]
• Reviewed by Gary Goldstein [Reel.com ]
• Reviewed by Ed Gonzalez [Slant Magazine ]
• Reviewed by Elizabeth Weitzman [NY Daily News ]
• Reviewed by Randy Cordova [Arizona Republic ]

Reader's Reviews

How many stars? 1 [Very Bad] 2 3 4 5 [Excellent]

   

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