Columbia Pictures | Release Date: December 17, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
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15
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14
Negative:
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An unusually shallow and facile work for Brooks, but the writing and the performances - other than Leoni's - keep us at least halfway involved.
50
Could have had charm if the characters had been more recognizable as human beings.
40
I've enjoyed Ms. Leoni's comic gifts in the past, and I'll enjoy them again, but Spanglish asks her to play crazed, and she delivers with a performance of unremitting, crazymaking shrillness.