| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"Anthony and Lopez are married in real life, and make a convincing couple onscreen, but in the movie, they never seem to learn anything..." more... |
C |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
"...nothing special." more... |
C |
Entertainment Weekly
Scott Brown |
"...a conventional, brassy blat of a biopic." more... |
C |
filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell |
"...it's time to put the musical-biopic genre on the shelf for a few years." more... |
D |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"Unfortunately, the music is as irresistible as the tired story of a musician succumbing to substance abuse is resistible." more... |
C |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...a downer of a musical biopic that leaves no cliché unturned." more... |
C |
New York Times
A. O. Scott |
"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." more... |
C |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"...Puchi's eyes were the wrong ones through which to tell Lavoe's story. It's the picture's fatal mistake." more... |
C- |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"The music is the uncontested highlight of El Cantante..." more... |
B- |
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