Over the past several years, I've cultivated an interest in Latin music -- Brazilian, Spanish, Puerto Rican, Mexican, etc. And though I know little about what sometimes separates those cultures, I ...

Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez are all dressed up and ready to rumble, musically speaking, in “El Cantante.” But this musical biography of salsa sensation Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), “The Voice,” turns ...

The details in “El Cantante” are not interesting or surprising, and yet, much of the time, the movie grabs hold of you. Singer Marc Anthony and two or three soundtracks’ worth of zesty songs are the ...

You’d think Jennifer Lopez would have learned her lesson about appearing in romantic movies with a real-life lover. As we saw in the infamous “Gigli,” starring J.Lo and former paramour Ben Affleck, ...

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If it weren't for the infectious, wall-to-wall salsa music, which Marc Anthony performs with a clear, stirring voice and great passion, it would be easy to write "El Cantante" off entirely as a ...

The opening of Leon Ichaso’s biopic of salsa star Héctor Lavoe has a buzzy vitality that doesn’t prepare you for what a drag the rest of the movie is. Jennifer Lopez, as Lavoe’s long-suffering but ...

Director Leon Ichaso really rips into the first section of this biopic of Puerto Rican-born singer Hector Lavoe, who was at the forefront when salsa music caught on in the United States in the 1970s.

The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002.

For "El Cantante," someone left the salsa out on the counter too long. Pic suffers from a lack of narrative and character focus, partly stemming from the need for producer-star Jennifer Lopez to have ...

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