[Flamin' Hot] is not a slog, but it’s surprisingly bland for a movie about a snack that is supposed to be painfully spicy.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 27, 2023

Despite the spicy subject matter, Flamin’ Hot is a run-of-the-mill biopic.

| Jun 17, 2023

We all want to feel as appreciated as we know we should be. It’s why these types of movies hit that warm-and-fuzzy spot, even when they’re little more than serviceable and enjoyable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 16, 2023

A less talented director would have taken a straight-forward approach. But Longoria turns her creative juices up into overdrive.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 15, 2023

It's a sticky story that turns into, at least, a good crowd pleaser.

| Jun 13, 2023

Playfully presented, it’s the kind of mildly tasty cinematic snack that doesn’t exactly stick to your ribs.

| Jun 13, 2023

It is a testament, then, to Eva Longoria’s directorial debut that the film largely overcomes not only a corn-chip-thin premise, but one that apparently isn’t even entirely true.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2023

Its sturdy, conventional approach either makes for persuasive fiction or streamlined reality...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 10, 2023

The broad sentimentality of Lewis Colick and Linda Yvette Chávez’s screenplay – not to mention its barely qualified devotion to the corporate ideal – betrays the potential for a properly pungent take on American pipe dreams.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 9, 2023

The director has called this a love story more than anything else, and the chemistry between Gonzalez and Garcia delivers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 9, 2023

Longoria and her actors lean into the cheesiness, pun intended, but not without winking at us in flights of imagination that communicate a layer of calculated mischief.

| Jun 9, 2023

What makes Flamin’ Hot such a depressing offering isn’t the relative truthiness of its source material, but the qualities it holds aloft as inspiring.

| Jun 9, 2023

For a film all about the importance of heat, it’s frankly lukewarm.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 9, 2023

“Flamin’ Hot” is more cheesy than spicy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 9, 2023

Flamin' Hot doesn't even feel real, and is so concerned with telling a feel-good, rags-to-riches story that it loses its credibility and any sense of relatability along the way, thereby undercutting the value of the story it's trying to tell.

| Original Score: C | Jun 8, 2023

Eva Longoria makes an assured big-screen directorial debut.

| Original Score: B | Jun 8, 2023

This enjoyable movie is designed to make you laugh, smile and cheer on the underdog.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 8, 2023

A very familiar recipe.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 8, 2023

Like product design in the Darwinian snack market, there is real sophistication in a film this successfully broad, marrying competing flavours and even sprinkling on playful subversion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 8, 2023

Directed with affectionate brio by the actor Eva Longoria.

| Jun 8, 2023