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Though Bratt is great in the title role, the biopic itself is messy and Piñero grows tiresome.
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Overlapping the artist's biography and his work, writer-director Leon Ichaso pointedly reflects the chaos in his subject's shortish life, but he links the artist's frustrations and talent in the usual manner: as cause and effect. Jul 31, 2007 | Full Review…
Overlapping the artist's biography and his work, writer-director Leon Ichaso pointedly reflects the chaos in his subject's shortish life, but he links the artist's frustrations and talent in the usual manner: as cause and effect.
Lisa Alspector
A scattershot stab at a fascinating life and times. Jul 31, 2007
A scattershot stab at a fascinating life and times.
Dennis Harvey
Flashily but irritatingly shot, full of unmotivated switches from colour to b/w, sudden flashbacks, mannered slow mo and jump cuts, this is hardly a subtle evocation of its subject's life. Feb 9, 2006 | Full Review…
Flashily but irritatingly shot, full of unmotivated switches from colour to b/w, sudden flashbacks, mannered slow mo and jump cuts, this is hardly a subtle evocation of its subject's life.
Derek Adams
A vivid rendering of the complexities of the artist's soul, and a notable attempt to convey the trajectory of a volatile creative life. Jul 20, 2002 | Rating: 3/4
A vivid rendering of the complexities of the artist's soul, and a notable attempt to convey the trajectory of a volatile creative life.
Loren King
Bratt's performance is as steady and consistent as the film is frustrating. May 3, 2002 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Bratt's performance is as steady and consistent as the film is frustrating.
Terry Lawson
It's impressionistic and risks incoherence, but it works as a successful montage of the unruly life of a sensitive, talented, but conflicted man whose self-destructiveness it never tries to sugarcoat or deny. Mar 22, 2002 | Rating: 3.5/4
It's impressionistic and risks incoherence, but it works as a successful montage of the unruly life of a sensitive, talented, but conflicted man whose self-destructiveness it never tries to sugarcoat or deny.
Jay Carr
A dull, slow, and completely uninteresting biopic. Apr 29, 2009 | Full Review…
A dull, slow, and completely uninteresting biopic.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Who was Piñero, and more to the point, why should we care? Bratt brings him to life, but we come away appreciating his genius no more than we did before. Dec 7, 2003 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
Who was Piñero, and more to the point, why should we care? Bratt brings him to life, but we come away appreciating his genius no more than we did before.
Eric D. Snider
The narrative jumps haphazardly from set-piece to set-piece. Mar 10, 2003 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The narrative jumps haphazardly from set-piece to set-piece.
Kimberley Jones
A movie of attitude that -- much like its main character -- consumes itself. Oct 10, 2002 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
A movie of attitude that -- much like its main character -- consumes itself.
Mark Halverson
An artistic nightmare, marred by numerous stylistic leaps. Oct 2, 2002 | Rating: 60/100
An artistic nightmare, marred by numerous stylistic leaps.
Ryan Cracknell
The only reason a person hops back-and-forth in one scene, from scene to scene, using (a) color film, (b) black-and-white stock, and (c) digital video (then back to (b), then (c) again, then (a), then...) is merely to do it because they can. Sep 17, 2002 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The only reason a person hops back-and-forth in one scene, from scene to scene, using (a) color film, (b) black-and-white stock, and (c) digital video (then back to (b), then (c) again, then (a), then...) is merely to do it because they can.
Greg Muskewitz
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