A dull, slow, and completely uninteresting biopic.

| Apr 29, 2009

Overlapping the artist's biography and his work, writer-director Leon Ichaso pointedly reflects the chaos in his subject's shortish life, but he links the artist's frustrations and talent in the usual manner: as cause and effect.

| Jul 31, 2007

A scattershot stab at a fascinating life and times.

Full Review | Jul 31, 2007

Flashily but irritatingly shot, full of unmotivated switches from colour to b/w, sudden flashbacks, mannered slow mo and jump cuts, this is hardly a subtle evocation of its subject's life.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 19, 2005

Who was Piero, and more to the point, why should we care? Bratt brings him to life, but we come away appreciating his genius no more than we did before.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 7, 2003

The narrative jumps haphazardly from set-piece to set-piece.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 10, 2003

A movie of attitude that -- much like its main character -- consumes itself.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2002

An artistic nightmare, marred by numerous stylistic leaps.

Full Review | Original Score: 60/100 | Oct 2, 2002

The only reason a person hops back-and-forth in one scene, from scene to scene, using (a) color film, (b) black-and-white stock, and (c) digital video (then back to (b), then (c) again, then (a), then...) is merely to do it because they can.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 17, 2002

The film's cinematic technique is supposed to be vibrant and alive and reflect Pinero's variegated lifestyle, but it never gets to the soul of the man....

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 29, 2002

This biopic seemed about as amorphous as a junkie high.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 26, 2002

A vivid rendering of the complexities of the artist's soul, and a notable attempt to convey the trajectory of a volatile creative life.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 20, 2002

This promises to be one of the better films of the year and Bratt's performance deserves at least a nomination...

| Jun 30, 2002

Benjamin Bratt, the pretty boy once seen on the arm of America's sweetheart Julia Roberts, plays Piero with a passion. It's a star-making performance.

Full Review | Jun 28, 2002

Bratt's performance is as steady and consistent as the film is frustrating.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 3, 2002

God is jealous of Benjamin Bratt, but He's coming around...Bratt's performance [here] is electrifying and charismatic.

Full Review | Apr 18, 2002

It attempts to champion the phony theme that poor, vulnerable artists should be forgiven their failings because they are so much more important than the rest of us.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 18, 2002

Bratt's feline elegance, arrogance, and melancholy can't compensate for Ichaso's lack of restraint.

| Mar 24, 2002

Bratt ... takes a giant step forward in terms of credibility.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2002