La Mujer de Mi Hermano
Lions Gate Films | Release Date: April 14, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
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70
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
As pared down, stylish and deceptively simple as the stark glass and concrete block inhabited by two of its main characters, La Mujer de Mi Hermano (My Brother's Wife) is an adultery drama that skips the big life lessons in favor of observing the mysteries of human interdependency and social behavior. Read full review
70
Washington PostStephen Hunter
The movie feels more like a thriller than a drama; it's paced like a thriller, building to a murder that never happens, exciting passions that are never unleashed, waiting for a crime to occur. The only crimes, however, are of the heart. Meanwhile, the movie knows exactly what it's doing, and does exactly what it intends, without making one false move. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Some movies sell and you don't know why. With La Mujer de mi Hermano, a big-screen romantic drama with the aura of a nicely steamed telenovela, you know why: because the three stars look good in plush white bathrobes, that's why. Read full review
60
Film ThreatEric Campos
The story's no great shakes here. However, the power of this film lies in the sexual tension boiling between the characters and that makes for a great date movie. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
For all its gender-bending, La Mujer De Mi Hermano's primary appeal is Mori's stunning beauty. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Despite the lowbrow story, this is supposed to be tasteful; expect modest nudity, swelling strings, and plenty of water imagery. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Mexican soap opera star Bárbara Mori may be the most beautiful woman to grace an American screen this year, and female viewers may feel similarly about her male co-stars Christian Meier and Manolo Cardona. But a telenovela with three gorgeous actors is still a telenovela. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
You could dismiss this swankily shot Latin American trifle as an upscale soap opera, but that would be an insult to soap operas. Read full review
42
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
If only La Mujer de mi Hermano had a dollop of humor and at least one character worth rooting for. Read full review
42
Portland OregonianMarc Mohan
One of the great things about international cinema is the way it can remind us of our common humanity. For instance, it's good to know that beautiful, rich people are selfish and miserable the world over. That's one of the few positives a viewer can take away from a film such as La Mujer de Mi Hermano. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter Debruge
Soapy melodrama and a small-screen cast undermine the first-time director's efforts. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMelissa Levine
Part of La Mujer's problem is its pace: Everything happens so slowly, and so meaningfully, that we see it coming for miles. Also, none of the three principals is remotely likable until the end. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
La Mujer lumbers along, trapped in a long-faced score that appears to have been borrowed from a thriller, and without a smidgen of the saving irony that might have made of it a decent screwball comedy. Read full review
40
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
The movie bubbles with incest, adultery, religion and homosexuality -- steamy themes that incite the cast to fits of enthusiastic overemoting. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
The characters never come across as anything more than self-interested parties. It’s hard to have a rooting interest in any of their fates, and even less in the outcome of this movie. Read full review
38
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
It never comes close to touching the audience's heart. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
Essentially a telenovela with cinematic pretensions, La Mujer de Mi Hermano (My Brother's Wife) is a vapid slab of soap depicting a love triangle among three remarkably uninteresting characters. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle Smith
Most of the movie's plot becomes obvious before you even meet the brother, 10 minutes into it. Even the sex scenes turn out to be tasteful and tame. You've seen hotter stuff on Oxygen. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The movie is astonishingly simple-minded, depicting characters who obediently perform their assigned roles as adulterers, cuckolds, etc. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleNeva Chonin
Repressed desire! A sultry soap-opera star! Incest! Gay politics! "La Mujer de Mi Hermano" has it all. Now if it only had a decent plot. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeJustine Elias
An oddly unsexy melodrama in which every supposedly shocking revelation (rape, incest, homosexuality, pedophilia) is treated with the same blithe shrug of recognition. It's numbing, especially with the film's deadly serious mood. Read full review
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