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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE (R) A glazed romantic-erotic fantasy that celebrates the intermingled powers of love, imagination, and food. That these are all abundantly good things is beyond dispute. Yet Like Water for Chocolate is a mushy, passive piece of moviemaking. Set on a Mexican ranch near the turn of the century, the film presents its heroine (Lumi Cavazos) as a creature of simple, earthy desires-St. Tita of the Divinely Minced Onion-and then sets her up against a spiteful witch of a mother. Can the power of love triumph over Victorian repression? Do we really need to watch this dilemma again? B-
Posted Jun 11, 1993
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- Book News LIKE CHOCOLATE FOR THE MIND
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- Pop Culture News Top 25 Modern Romances | Kristen Baldwin, Scott Brown, Ty Burr, Clarissa Cruz, Amy Feitelberg, Nicholas Fonseca, Caroline Kepnes, Alice M. Lee, Allyssa Lee, Nancy Miller, Troy Patterson, Dalton Ross, Karen Valby
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