SummaryEl 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... Read More
Directed By:Leon Ichaso
Written By:Leon Ichaso, David Darmstaeder, Todd Bello
El cantante
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Mixed or Average
46
User score
Generally Favorable
7.7
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
25% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
63% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
13% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
75
It's a soaring, crashing, blazing affair with pyrotechnic performances by real-life spouses Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez as Lavoe and his wife, Puchi. Like a plane disaster, it holds you in thrall of ¡ay, Dios mio! drama.
63
Biopic cliches hamstring producer-star Jennifer Lopez's pet project.
User score
Generally Favorable
75% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
10% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
15% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Sep 9, 2019
10
Una historia realmente asombrosa. La actuación de Jennifer Lopez como "Puchi" realmente increíble digna de un Oscar.
Dec 23, 2015
4
El Cantante was certainly told the life and work of Hector Lavoe, the tragicomedy of son , his songs, wins and losses , but it was boring but not stay as yesterday's newspaper. I honestly did not like the Spanish language, but they like his songs.
50
"Everybody loved him. One woman understood him," goes the ad line. But the movie makes you wonder how anyone could love this screw-up and why anyone would have a problem understanding him.
50
It may be best to approach El Cantante less as a movie than as a two-hour promotional video for a must-have soundtrack album.
50
Anthony, with his famished thousand-yard stare, turns in a delicate -- perhaps too delicate -- performance more informed by the shadow of Lavoe's death than the spark of his art. And his shrill domestic scenes with Lopez feel small and squalid, as we wait restlessly for the band to play us out.
40
Unfortunately, there's little more than formula in Ichaso's El Cantante.
25
The film doesn't make a case for Lavoe as an important artist.
May 29, 2023
0
JLo is an arrogant and deplorable woman who doesn't know what quality and talent is. His works are hideous and dark.
Production Company:
- Nuyorican Productions
- R-Caro Productions
Release Date:Aug 3, 2007
Duration:1 h 46 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Based on the true story of the King of Salsa, Hector Lavoe.
Awards
Latin Grammy Award
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
