Piñero

Name: Piñero
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: December 14, 2001
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 40
Cast: Benjamin Bratt

2001

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New Films International | Release Date: December 14, 2001 | R

Starring: Benjamin Bratt

Summary: Benjamin Bratt stars in the true story of the turbulent and creative life of Puerto Rican poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero. (Miramax Films)

Director: León Ichaso

Genre(s): Biography, Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 103 min

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Bob Graham

A daring, free-spirited and ultimately moving performance by Benjamin Bratt lies at the beating heart of Pinero. Read full review

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. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine 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. Read full review

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. Read full review

Michael Dequina

Bratt's fast-talking, all-attitude interpretation is showboating without soul -- which can be said of the entire movie. Read full review

Peter Travers

There's a strong movie in this life, but writer-director Leon Ichaso ("Sugar Hill") hasn't found it. Read full review

Charles Taylor

A sustained piece of showboating mythmaking, and something of a snow job. Read full review

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