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Piñero
Miramax Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for drug use, strong language and sexuality
Starring
Benjamin Bratt,
Giancarlo Esposito,
Talisa Soto,
Nelson Vasquez,
Rita Moreno,
and
Mandy Patinkin
Benjamin Bratt stars in the true story of the turbulent and creative life of Puerto Rican poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero. (Miramax Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Leon Ichaso
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Leon Ichaso
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 16, 2002
Video: July 16, 2002
Theatrical: December 14, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
100 minutes, Color / BW |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
A daring, free-spirited and ultimately moving performance by Benjamin Bratt lies at the beating heart of Pinero.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Ichaso moves easily between a black-and-white past and a full-color present, maintaining a pace as buoyant and rhythmic as the beat of the infectious Latin music that accompanies the film.

75
Chicago Tribune
Loren King
It wisely lets us hear Pinero's words for ourselves, and in the end, they echo louder than the images that accompany them.

70
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
It is a career-defining performance that could catapult the 37-year-old actor beyond bland romantic leads and into the kinds of juicy anti-heroic parts once gobbled up by Mr. Hoffman and Robert De Niro.

60
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Ichaso tells Piñero's story through a sometimes disorienting series of flashbacks and flash-forwards, fracturing the time frame to suit the film's internal rhythms, rather than any coherent time line.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Piñero never comes close to convincing us that this guy is worth a movie at all.

50
New Times (L.A.)
Andy Klein
What Ichaso does do is take us on a dizzying, constantly moving ride through an exciting decade in the blossoming of "Nuyorican" culture with its most flamboyant figure as our focus.

50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
A biopic that is as messy as the life it details.
40
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A well-intentioned, reverential but unenlightening portrait. It pays tribute to the artist. Yet it doesn't scrutinize him.

40
LA Weekly
Steven Mikulan
The main drawback is Claudio Chea's vertiginous camera work -- and the print's continual alternations between black-and-white and color add nothing but a distracting ornamentation.

40
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Not a man, but the romanticizing of him. A lot of jive-shit.

40
Film Threat
Michael Dequina
Bratt's fast-talking, all-attitude interpretation is showboating without soul -- which can be said of the entire movie.

30
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
This character was an abusive swine. Perhaps it would be best to let his art stand on its own.

30
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
At its most indulgent and posturing, Piñero plays like a movie the man himself might've made, between scores.

30
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
There's a strong movie in this life, but writer-director Leon Ichaso ("Sugar Hill") hasn't found it.

20
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Hectic, sketchy and finally dull.

20
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
A sustained piece of showboating mythmaking, and something of a snow job.


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