| Original Score: D+ | Sep 7, 2011

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 25, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 4, 2001

Torres' playful and whimsical film is the ideal tonic for the winter blues, bursting with sunshine, fantasy, and mouth-wateringly fiery food.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2001

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 22, 2000

A romantic fairy tale that's light and in several ways seductive, if not exactly filling. Still, there's always something enticing for the eye.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Flavor? Amusingly piquant with traces of honey. Aftertaste? Thin.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

This would-be spicy film has been made blandly palatable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

There's a forced sprightliness, here, that reminds me too much of how people get at the end of a party -- you know, when they've stopped having fun but can't quite muster the will to leave or clean up the trash and vomit.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A succession of Cruz close-ups -- as striking as they may be -- do not a feature make. One also could use a plot, a soupon of conflict and a heroine with more substance than an inflatable doll.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Tries too hard to be playful and sensual, wacky and romantic, and comes away feeling fake and prefabricated instead.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Woman on Top is a lot less substantial, but no less enjoyable than the original food, sex and 'magic realism' hit of 1992, Like Water for Chocolate.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A dish that's pretty easy to swallow, but if it could have borrowed some of Isabella's more potent spices, it might have boasted a more lasting flavor.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It won't please the cynics, but it'll make the romantics among us smile.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Short and sweet, it's suitable for a date night that includes both a movie and dinner.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Woman on Top can't overcome a story that's little more than a lumpy, uninspired contrivance.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Instead of hot, you get barely lukewarm -- a tepid and oily 'Calgon, take me away!' bath that seems to be aimed at women who don't get out very much.

| Jan 1, 2000

Cruz has everything it takes to be a big star, except maybe, in this case, the right movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Are you happy to spend the entire movie worshiping [Cruz's] beauty and celebrating her character's self-actualization, or do you want a little more on your plate?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000