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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 05 Aug 2007

A sizzling soundtrack and Jennifer Lopez's best performance since Out of Sight go only so far in El Cantante, a downer of a musical biopic…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Screentalk (2) on 03 Aug 2007

You need to give your audience a reason to care, not just assume they will because your subject was important to the history of music…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Maxim (189) on 03 Aug 2007

It's hot stuff! Lopez and Anthony set off fireworks. In fact Lopez has never been better. As a musical showcase it scores big time…

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By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 02 Aug 2007

How are we supposed to view Lavoe? The film never makes up its mind. The man apparently started out as an innocent and quickly went to the devil…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 02 Aug 2007

The stew of salsa music is delicious but the drama of drug addiction and a tempestuous marriage are nothing more than stale leftovers from…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for TV Guide (1,527) on 02 Aug 2007

Biopic cliches hamstring producer-star Jennifer Lopez's pet project…

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By Lisa Kennedy (833) for Denver Post (1,096) on 02 Aug 2007

El Cantante never nails the ecstatic moment of musical collaboration we crave from this genre…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 02 Aug 2007

The film doesn't make a case for Lavoe as an important artist…

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By Mario Tarradell (36) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 02 Aug 2007

Nothing gets explored at length, and some key points are glossed over altogether, namely Héctor's out-of-wedlock son and his frequent womanizing…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 02 Aug 2007

If you're a fan of Hector Lavoe and Latin music, or Lopez and Anthony, you'll want to see El Cantante for what's good in it…

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By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 02 Aug 2007

Perhaps El Cantante will inspire viewers to seek out recordings by Lavoe, who died in 1993 after battles with AIDS and addiction…

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By Gary Goldstein (1,089) for Reel.com (1,232) on 02 Aug 2007

Ultimately, Ichaso's passionate helming and its stars' deep commitment make El Cantante (The Singer) worth seeing, despite the film's unmistakable…

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By Rene Rodriguez (1,781) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 02 Aug 2007

It's whenever the music stops that the movie runs into trouble…

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By Kim Voynar (107) for Cinematical (752) on 02 Aug 2007

El Cantante' takes the life of a fascinating and complex man and waters it down into a decidedly uninspiring and vanilla biopic…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 02 Aug 2007

Perhaps there will come a time when a musical bio-pic doesn't hang its hat on misery, but at the end of the day, El Cantante is pretty darn…

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By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 02 Aug 2007

Takes the unusual -- and awkward -- approach of letting Puchi tell Hector's story via flashbacks…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 01 Aug 2007

Frankly, any of us could write this screenplay…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 01 Aug 2007

It's as if the film's producer Jennifer Lopez didn't learn a thing from Gigli by playing a married couple with her actual husband…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 01 Aug 2007

Turns out to be nothing special. Well, the music is. The storytelling is not…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 01 Aug 2007

It may be best to approach El Cantante less as a movie than as a two-hour promotional video for a must-have soundtrack album…

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