Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

This is an entertaining biopic that's worth seeing for the terrific musical sequences and for the superb performances by Anthony and Lopez. Recommended.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 5, 2008

In fact, Lopez deserves praise for pushing this project. The recently deceased Puchi (who helped generate the script and pushed for Lopez to play her) is not the kind of character you see on screen every day.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2008

Leon Ichaso's film soft-pedals everything save the language in what often resembles a made-for-cable biopic.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 5, 2008

There is something entirely dead about Lopez's performance. No matter how superficially lively she makes it, she is always simply mouthing the lines. Never mind Jenny from the block. Jenny is the block. Of wood.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 5, 2008

The film, however, beginning with a flashback to 1963, is a soft-pedalled account of Lavoe's rise to fame and his drug-related downfall that has more in common with the biopic parody Walk Hard than anything as muddy as real life.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 5, 2008

It doesn't help that, in the title role, Marc Anthony has all the onscreen charisma of wet dough.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 5, 2008

This messy, maudlin portrait of the decline and decline of Puerto Rico-born salsa star Hctor Lavoe wavers uncertainly between cable channel biopic and socially concerned drug movie.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Sep 5, 2008

Thought it was impossible to make the story of a drug-addicted musical icon boring? You were wrong.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 23, 2008

Jennifer Lopez is superb as Puchi, delivering a totally credible, multi dimensional character.

| Jul 12, 2008

I want a great film about Hector Lavoe, and after watching this, I'm still waiting for it...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 6, 2008

Jennifer Lopez plays it tough and down and dirty, on the Mexican border.

| Oct 25, 2007

Another singer self-destructs, to a Latin beat.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 22, 2007

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 22, 2007

LLittle more than a string of music videos in search of a script.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 22, 2007

Reduces a potentially fascinating film into merely another cautionary story about a self-absorbed celebrity-junkie-whore.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 23, 2007

Unfortunately, El Cantante turns out to be much more of an Anthony and Lopez project than a Lavoe one. Shot with seeming disregard for any of his actual artistic importance, the film fails to answer some of the simplest and most important questions about

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 22, 2007

To Paraphrase Denis Leary: I'm stoned; I'm nobody. I'm stoned; I'm famous. I'm stoned; I'm dead.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 19, 2007