Woman on Top Reviews
February 26, 2020
Shut off the analytic sector of your brain, and the rest of you can, have a thoroughly pleasant night out at the movie theater.
May 16, 2009
"Woman On Top" is a chick flick with so much colorfully spicy Brazilian food being passed around as a shared aphrodisiac, that audience couples will be running out the cinema for food and bed.
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| Original Score: B
August 7, 2008
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| Original Score: 3/5
September 16, 2007
Cruz smolders with sexuality.
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| Original Score: B+
December 6, 2005
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| Original Score: 3/5
July 1, 2004
May remind you of Like Water For Chocolate without the tragedy and subtitles.
December 8, 2002
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| Original Score: 3/5
July 28, 2002
Woman on Top es una divertida fbula acerca del poder del Amor. Simplona...pero romntica.
Original Score: 7/10
June 18, 2002
Does nothing for gender or culture politics, but it's peppy and colorful, so you might enjoy parts even if you really shouldn't.
April 16, 2001
Torres' playful and whimsical film is the ideal tonic for the winter blues, bursting with sunshine, fantasy, and mouth-wateringly fiery food.
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| Original Score: 3/5
January 1, 2000
The combination of food, sex, giddy Latin American mysticism and fast-rising Spanish star Penelope Cruz is a formidable one, and the movie is darn hard to resist.
Original Score: B+
January 1, 2000
If it were a song, it would be a happy pop number -- The Girl From Ipanema -- with a tune you can't ignore.
January 1, 2000
You know it's working when it makes everything in it look good enough to eat, including the San Francisco transit system.
January 1, 2000
It's all coy and fey -- and painless to digest.
January 1, 2000
Nothing lies under the surface of Woman on Top. But since so much of the surface is the golden form of Penelope Cruz, I would be a sorry whiner to complain.
January 1, 2000
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| Original Score: 6/10
January 1, 2000
A charming confection spun from pure whimsy, and bouncy with bright songs and sets.
January 1, 2000
Attains a rarified air of fantasy that may not be wholly uncalculated, but with Cruz at its center is certainly watchable.
January 1, 2000
A romantic comedy that bubbles and sizzles with its mixture of food, love, and Brazilian music.
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| Original Score: 3/5
January 1, 2000
Good-hearted and mature in a way that many mainstream films are not.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4