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  • Summary: Alejandro Springall directs this Spanish-language film about a pious widow Esperanza (Heredia) who uses magic to try and locate her lost and presumed dead daughter who she believes was the victim of a mysterious virus and all kinds of other lurid happenings.
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  1. Reviewed by: Joseph Trevino
    90
    Springall also deftly weaves the film's most dramatic moments with lighthearted comedy, and the result may be Mexico's best film in years.
  2. Reviewed by: Ronnie Scheib
    80
    The incredible adventures pile up unrelentingly, with no inflection, no downtime, and each new space is a set decorator's hallucination, as brightly colored as a candy store on acid.
  3. Reviewed by: Anita Gates
    80
    Disarmingly endearing.
  4. 50
    There's no gold dust to be found here, just an awful lot of stick-on glitter.

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