The turbulent life of famed salsa singer Hector Lavoe (Marc Anthony) and his wife, Puchi (Jennifer Lopez), is brought to the big screen in this warts-and-bling-and-bongos spectacle.
Frank Oz's film, set in England, might have been an urbane black comedy like the Ealing Studio classics of the 1950s, That hope disappears in the first 15 minutes
This enviro-docu-drama set amid the creatures of the Arctic from Adam Ravetch and Sarah Robertson misses its mark by anthropomorphizing its subjects, rigging a story, and delivering its message ad nauseum with a jivey hammer.
Abderrahmane Sissako's deceptively placid yet searing film recalls the political theater of the late 1960s and early '70s -- at once artificial, naturalistic and allegorical.
