El Cantante
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- Synopsis
- Pop icon Marc Anthony steps into the role of Salsa superstar Hector Lavoe in this biopic that follows the singer from his early career success as a Puerto Rican teen sensation to his later status as a New York City Latin idol while also documenting ......
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- Director(s)
- Leon Ichaso
- Distributor(s)
- Picturehouse
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 116 min.
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Washington Post | Ann HornadayAdd Critic to Favorites
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 the full review
USA Today | Claudia PuigAdd Critic to Favorites
The music is the uncontested highlight of El Cantante.Read the full review
Boston Globe | Ty BurrAdd Critic to Favorites
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 the full review