| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 30, 2005

Bendito Infierno's characters crack and pop off the screen; you're caught up in their tussle even as you acknowledge its artificiality.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 4, 2005

...undoubtedly a silly premise, but writer/director Agustin Diaz Yanes imbues the film with enough style and humor to keep things interesting.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 18, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 21, 2003

As tempting as it is to describe the level of humor in Don't Tempt Me as hellish, that's probably giving the movie more credit than it deserves. Although describing anything in this dark comedy as heavenly is even more of a stretch.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 12, 2003

A train wreck of half-developed ideas without a unifying thread.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 12, 2003

Sometimes nothing is more irritating than forced wackiness. Especially forced wackiness with a supposed deeper point.

| Original Score: C | Nov 13, 2003

A barely comprehensible mess ... Fun is something in very short supply in this would-be comedy.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 3, 2003

It's all harmless fun, I suppose, and mercifully free of all the cant usually associated with fantasies of Heaven and Hell.

| Sep 26, 2003

This doesn't intend to be a mystery but it sure makes one out of why the investors didn't require a re-write.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 7, 2003

Bernal can't decide if he's making a Tarantino homage or an Almodvar riff or an Albert Brooks tribute... and the wobbly sensibility finally knocks the movie's legs out from beneath it altogether.

| Sep 4, 2003

Manny is so uninteresting as a pivotal character that he's a black hole who sucks away our investment in the film.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 4, 2003

A sultry, pretty thing with a few good ideas: in other words, stuck in limbo.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 27, 2003

Consistently clever and inventive on a level a little below the inspired.

Full Review | Aug 22, 2003

It's only sporadically entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 21, 2003

An unfocused, overplotted, painfully derivative comic fantasy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 21, 2003

The film lumbers along with a confused logic and becomes so entangled in its own numerous subplots that it trips over its own leaden feet.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 21, 2003

It's not quite The Divine Comedy, but it's almost as irreverent, insightful and thought provoking.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 21, 2003

The story takes a while to get going, but once it does, it includes a few Pulp Fiction-style flourishes and becomes a devil of a good time.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 21, 2003

Don't Tempt Me is a spunky and clever Spanish comedy that offers a satirical look at anxiety and competition on Earth and in the afterlife realms of Heaven and Hell.

| Aug 21, 2003