El cantante

Name: El cantante
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Released: August 3, 2007
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 46
Cast: Marc Anthony

2007

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Picturehouse Entertainment | Release Date: August 3, 2007 | R

Starring: Marc Anthony

Summary: El Cantante celebrates the life and music of the legendary Puerto Rican salsa singer Hector Lavoe, a pioneer of the sound and sensibility that redefined Latin music in the 1960s and 1970s. El Cantante portrays an era when a new sense of national identity and pride took root in Puerto Rican communities across the U.S. Hector Lavoe's musicEl Cantante celebrates the life and music of the legendary Puerto Rican salsa singer Hector Lavoe, a pioneer of the sound and sensibility that redefined Latin music in the 1960s and 1970s. El Cantante portrays an era when a new sense of national identity and pride took root in Puerto Rican communities across the U.S. Hector Lavoe's music was both a soundtrack to and affirmation of that awakening. (Picturehouse)… Expand

Director: León Ichaso

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Music

Rating: R

Runtime: 106 min

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Peter Rainer

Anthony doesn't have a large emotional range as an actor, and neither does Lopez. Still, the musical numbers, which constitute a hefty portion of screen time, are thrilling. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

A star isn't born in El Cantante as much as it's reconfirmed. She's still here, and she's still got it. Read full review

Ty Burr

Ideally, it would give you a sense of an entire people knocking the planet off its axis with a shake of their hips. If only El Cantante were that movie. Instead, it's a curiously sludgy cross between a Doomed Star biopic and a J. Lo vanity project. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

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 that leaves no cliché unturned. Read full review

Kirk Honeycutt

Unfortunately, the music is as irresistible as the tired story of a musician succumbing to substance abuse is resistible. Read full review

Robert Koehler

A virtual template of every imaginable cliche of the musical biopic, picture suffers from a lack of narrative and character focus Read full review

Mick LaSalle

The film doesn't make a case for Lavoe as an important artist. Read full review

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Hugoema

Sep 9, 2019

Una historia realmente asombrosa. La actuación de Jennifer Lopez como "Puchi" realmente increíble digna de un Oscar.

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ShevyL.

Aug 5, 2007

I just want to say this because I know a lot of people hate on Jen even critics so I know she will never get a fair shot. We all know she deserves recognition for this but will it happen, because of people's perspective and or hatred for her. People meaning critics. This is a low I just want to say this because I know a lot of people hate on Jen even critics so I know she will never get a fair shot. We all know she deserves recognition for this but will it happen, because of people's perspective and or hatred for her. People meaning critics. This is a low budget film and I am sure none or almost all of the critics have and or will forget to mention that when they say it opened poorly, which it didn't. Just like they did with her low budget film An Unfinished Life. Some people just love to put others down, and Jen is on the critics list for bashing. She cant get a fair chance from them, so people may as well stop listening to them and just judge the film for themselves.… Expand