"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in hard-core Sing-Sing for petty thefts and drug dealing, Piñero's prison experiences developed into the 1974 Tony-nominated play Short Eyes. The resulting notoriety and fame was too much for the Latino bad-boy genius who retreated to the darker corners of New York City.... (Full plot summary below)
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"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in hard-core Sing-Sing for petty thefts and drug dealing, Piñero's prison experiences developed into the 1974 Tony-nominated play Short Eyes. The resulting notoriety and fame was too much for the Latino bad-boy genius who retreated to the darker corners of New York City.
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| San Francisco ChronicleBob GrahamA daring, free-spirited and ultimately moving performance by Benjamin Bratt lies at the beating heart of Pinero. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanWorth seeing for Benjamin Bratt's performance. |
| SPLICEDWireRob BlackwelderWho'd have thought Benjamin Bratt could give such an impassioned, stormy, totally absorbing performance that he would leave you gaping in astonishment and admiration? |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekThe deliberately lackadaisical, almost improvisational approach occasionally achieves striking moments, but mostly seems more flat and redundant. |
| Chicago TribuneLoren KingIt wisely lets us hear Pinero's words for ourselves, and in the end, they echo louder than the images that accompany them. |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.A dull, slow, and completely uninteresting biopic. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Jeff ViceThere's no denying that [Bratt's] riveting, live-wire performance as the title character here energizes an otherwise sketchy biography. |
| FilmsInReview.comVictoria AlexanderGod is jealous of Benjamin Bratt, but He's coming around...Bratt's performance [here] is electrifying and charismatic. |
| New York PostLou LumenickHas its moments ... but overall it doesn't do justice to Bratt's brave performance. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasIchaso moves easily between a black-and-white past and a full-color present, maintaining a pace as buoyant and rhythmic as the beat of the infectious Latin music that accompanies the film. |
