Articles tagged "jennifer lopez"

Film DVD Review

El Cantante

by Josh Timmermann

[30.Oct.07] :. Every bit the camp classic that Gigli was supposed to be. El Cantante is nothing if not a generously budgeted, extended music video.

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Music Review

Jennifer Lopez: Brave

by Mike Joseph

[29.Oct.07] :. Throw some danceable beats together, pay for a couple of recognizable samples maybe add a guest rapper or two, and voila! You have an instant J. Lo album!

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Film Review

El Cantante

by Bill Gibron

[4.Aug.07] :. Jennifer Lopez is the new Barbra Streisand. No, old Butta Babs can still act and sing rings around this entertainment wannabe. No, where J-Lo matches the Oscar winning diva is in the oversized ego department.

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News

J.Lo’s heritage looms large in her music and new movie

by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[3.Aug.07] :. With the opening of her film El Cantante—a biopic about Hector Lavoe, the vibrant soul of New York’s salsa scene in the `70s—along with a recent Spanish-language album...

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Film Review

El Cantante

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Aug.07] :. The biopic formula overtakes historical details and even director Leon Ichaso's signature impressionism, with an awkward and unsurprising result.

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Film Review

An Unfinished Life (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Sep.05] :. For all its attention to fading landscapes and independence, cowboys and loyalties, the movie is more quaintly melodramatic than adventurous.

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Monster-In-Law (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.May.05] :. Though the pathologies Fonda and Lopez embody tend to be framed as individual, they are symptomatic and well rewarded.

Shall We Dance? (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Feb.05] :. 'The fact is,' says director Peter Chelsom, 'I was very, very wary about remaking such a perfect original.'"

Shall We Dance? (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Oct.04] :. Paulina is not only gorgeous, athletic, and lithe, she's also in need of solace.

Jersey Girl (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Sep.04] :. Affleck and Smith talk lots about shooting details and feelings about their chosen fields, their mutual esteem and affection audible.

Jersey Girl (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Mar.04] :. Early in Jersey Girl, Ben Affleck cries. It's a grim and alarming moment.

Gigli (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Dec.03] :. It's tempting to imagine what extras might have been like for a Gigli DVD, given that the film received what had to be the most vehement critical drubbing of any released this past year.

Enough (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Sep.03] :. The first bit of news I heard on waking up this morning was that the wedding was off.

Gigli (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Aug.03] :. His hair slicked back, his face set in an expression resembling impassivity, Larry Gigli (Ben Affleck) tends to philosophize with his marks.

Maid in Manhattan (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Apr.03] :. Jennifer Lopez has made a lucrative habit of reprising her story in most of her fictional incarnations.

Maid in Manhattan (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Dec.02] :. This 'ethnic' modification of 'Pretty Woman'-meets-'Working Girl' uses the 'iconic' Lopez strategically.

Enough (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Oct.02] :. J-Lo rocks combat boots.

Enough (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.May.02] :. J-Lo rocks combat boots.

Angel Eyes (2001)

by Robert Ara Svihla

Playing a social outcast capable of helping others but incapable of helping herself, Jennifer Lopez still comes off as too much of a star she is, and not enough of the lonely beat cop she's supposed to be.

Angel Eyes (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

PULL.

The Cell (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Getting inside madmen’s heads is all the rage. This isn’t to say it’s news, exactly — criminologists, detectives, and sundry monster-chasers have been doing it forever. Think:...

The Cell (2000)

by Paul Varner

Feel-good movie? Yes, this good old-fashioned serial killer/slasher flick should send everybody home feeling good about U.S. culture and about human nature. If you want to go to a movie that will...

An Unfinished Life (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

For his part, Lasse Hallström likes the subtler strokes, as the scene when Redford sits in his truck and is unable to start it.

The Wedding Planner (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The Wedding Planner's many compromises between eras, between genres, between color palettes -- never really take you anywhere, except, perhaps, a place where everything has turned kind of beige.