Woman on Top

Name: Woman on Top
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: September 22, 2000
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 41
Cast: Penélope Cruz

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Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: September 22, 2000 | R

Starring: Penélope Cruz

Summary: Set to the intoxicating rhythms of Brazil, Woman on Top is a spicy, sexy comedy about the magic of food, love and music. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Director: Fina Torres

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 92 min

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William Arnold

As a goofy little fantasy, however, this film has loads of charm. Read full review

Lisa Nesselson

A fantastical romp with a buoyant pace, exotic locations, a finger-popping score, appealing leads and spicy cooking demonstrations. Read full review

Steven Rea

Tries too hard to be playful and sensual, wacky and romantic, and comes away feeling fake and prefabricated instead. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

Bright, bubbly and thoroughly inconsequential. Read full review

Russell Smith

Thanks to this relentlessly likable film's playful sexuality and utter lack of pretension it's surprisingly easy to let all of one's objections float away on a fragrant cloud of kitchen sweat, pheromones, and sweet lime zest. Read full review

Jessica Winter

Too flimsily built and baldly unfunny to bolster Cruz's charms, but Almodóvar's blessed Virgin is, as usual, winning and guilelessly seductive. Read full review

Rita Kempley

The mind will be starved for subtlety, wit and substance. Read full review

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LukeFelipe

May 12, 2017

Silly, romantic and sexy, this is an unpretentious romantic comedy about love and food. Probably it will not last two days on your memory, but it will for sure ensure good and funny moments at anytime. Enjoy Penelope Cruz on one of her best roles and prepare to drool on Isabella's awesome recipes.

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morovian

Jul 8, 2023

This film was SO disappointing. The only thing it accomplished was to prove that Penelope Cruz is extremely photogenic. I particularly loathe this endless portrayal of men as weak, disempowered, needy and hopeless as were both the Caucasian AND the Latino love interests – the Brazilian wasThis film was SO disappointing. The only thing it accomplished was to prove that Penelope Cruz is extremely photogenic. I particularly loathe this endless portrayal of men as weak, disempowered, needy and hopeless as were both the Caucasian AND the Latino love interests – the Brazilian was only faking masculine empowerment. He possessed none. “Woman On Top” implies that Cruz is usurping the masculine role and therefore the power associated with it, but does she really need weak men around her to emphasize this? Perhaps to create a made-for-TV storyline. One thing this film may have metaphorically, but quite accidentally, gotten right was that wisdom comes from a balanced (inner) masculine/yang – feminine/yin dynamic which was portrayed by Cruz’ transvestite friend.… Expand

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hamidgoodarzi

Jul 31, 2023

A movie for entertainment A fantasy comedy about love. What makes the movie acceptable to some extent is the deep and different look of the movie towards food. Food has cultural and philosophical roots and the film approaches these roots.

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