Santitos

Has the same kind of humor, charm and sensuality that made "Like Water for Chocolate" the most popular foreign-language film until "Life Is Beautiful" came along.

Springall also deftly weaves the film's most dramatic moments with lighthearted comedy, and the result may be Mexico's best film in years.

Disarmingly endearing.

It's remarkably bright, funny and sweet for a film that wades through so much sleaze, though it can't escape all of the weirdness it worms through.

A brightly colored, picaresque adventure that's equal parts telenovela melodrama and pop-magic realism.

There's no gold dust to be found here, just an awful lot of stick-on glitter.

A Mexican film that reaches for a very weird and risky tone, and, I think, fails.