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

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

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

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

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

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

It's impressionistic and risks incoherence, but it works as a successful montage of the unruly life of a sensitive, talented, but conflicted man whose self-destructiveness it never tries to sugarcoat or deny.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 22, 2002

What makes the film so grueling and, eventually, tiresome is the relentlessness of the guy's self-destruction.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 15, 2002

A daring, free-spirited and ultimately moving performance by Benjamin Bratt lies at the beating heart of Pinero.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 25, 2002

This character was an abusive swine. Perhaps it would be best to let his art stand on its own.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 25, 2002

It can be a bit confusing, but it's also rewarding.

Full Review | Jan 25, 2002

A well-intentioned, reverential but unenlightening portrait.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 24, 2002

Bratt ... explodes like a cherry bomb in the role.

Full Review | Jan 24, 2002

An annoyingly hyper biopic.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 6, 2002

Worth seeing for Benjamin Bratt's performance.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 22, 2001

You get the feeling Ichaso is trying to bluff us into becoming believers.

Full Review | Dec 14, 2001

A sustained piece of showboating mythmaking, and something of a snow job.

| Dec 13, 2001

Despite the quality of Bratt's performance, the movie is like its subject: provocative, impenetrable and tiresome.

Full Review | Dec 13, 2001

Vibrant and compelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 13, 2001

Has its moments ... but overall it doesn't do justice to Bratt's brave performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 13, 2001