The double catharsis is very moving and the ending is immensely honest... [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 7, 2023

A most respectable drama with magnificent performances from the stellar protagonists that tries to go beyond average movies about addiction. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 7, 2023

Mandoki lets the weight of the movie fall on his two excellent leads, while he slips away assembling long scenes between them that work very well, but interspersed unnecessarily with musical and touristic intermissions. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 7, 2023

It's an involving film which, for the most part, avoids preachiness. And it's entertaining in a way most movies care to be anymore.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2023

Garcia, too, disappears brilliantly into his role, that of a well-meaning but inflexible man unable to cope with the transformations brought about by Ryan's attempts to sober up. [It's] a serious relationship study on par with the best of John Cassavetes.

| Sep 1, 2023

Alcoholism has been called a disease of denial. What When a Man Loves a Woman understands is that those around the alcoholic often deny it, too, and grow accustomed to their relationship with a drunk.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 1, 2023

The performances of Ryan and Garcia and of the amazing 9-year-old Tina Majorino as daughter from an earlier marriage keep the story grounded in some semblance of reality.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2023

Manipulative and weepy, When a Man Loves a Woman often feels like a grueling therapy session.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 1, 2023

Garcia and Ryan make us believe and make us care, without the usual histrionics. When a Man Loves a Woman won't leave you shaken, but you'll probably be stirred.

| Original Score: B | Sep 1, 2023

Andy Garcia conveys an almost glacial calm and fortitude beneath which a reservoir of boiling rage consistently seems to simmer.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2023

When A Man Loves A Woman doesn't delve too deeply into why Alice is an alcoholic aside from some mumble about low self-esteem... But the romance between Michael and Alice is strong enough to carry this baggage.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2023

When a Man Loves a Woman wants to be about what happens when a woman loves a bottle, but really about what happens when a producer wants a hit.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 1, 2023

This beautifully acted, emotionally fraught film... unfolds in ways that are all too familiar to 온라인카지노추천-movie addicts. At the same time, it benefits from achingly well-observed star performances that don't beg for sympathy or succumb to clichés.

| Sep 1, 2023

Although When a Man Loves a Woman sometimes comes perilously close to sinking into a public-service promo for Alcoholics Anonymous, the ever-surprising Meg Ryan somehow manages to rescue her new film from bathos or preachiness.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 1, 2023

The showy ending lacks the intimacy that would have put a nice cap on the proceedings. But Garcia and Ryan already have accomplished the most important thing: They've made us care about the movie's characters and made us eager to follow their progress.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2023

While Garcia has the less flashy part, he effectively conveys the pain and frustration that lies behind his responsible, optimistic and calm airline pilot façade.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2023

When a Man Loves a Woman doesn't take the easy way out. It hits hard at the emotions and twisted logic that lie on both sides of the issue. This is a stirring and tender look into the swirling chaos of the disease of addiction.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 1, 2023

That this film often transcends the cramped movie-of-the-week category is due to the talent and conviction that are obvious in virtually its every aspect The movie's premise may be conventional, but its emotional power caught me off guard.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2023

Meg Ryan's soul-in-torment portrayal is transcendent a consistently excellent performance that keeps the film on course more often than not.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2023

Much of the reason for success rests with Meg Ryan, everybody's sweetheart, because she isn't afraid to let herself portray anger, addiction, vulnerability, depression, and fear, and her range is sometimes awe inspiring.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2023