The Mambo Kings 1992

Vincent Canby, New York Times: It's as if there were a terrible telephone connection between the film's vivid sound track and its tepid romantic melodrama, to which the music is supposed to give style and substance. Read more

Entertainment Weekly: The Mambo Kings is a tinsel-edged dream of a movie. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: In some ways this story is as old as the movies, but "The Mambo Kings" is so filled with energy, passion and heedless vitality that it seems new, anyway. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: A spirited evocation of the mambo craze which swept post-war America, adapted from Oscar Hijuelos' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: "The Mambo Kings" is so pumped up with life it threatens to burst. It's beautifully filmed and flashily edited. It pulsates with rhythmic ecstasy. It throbs, it sweats, it pounds, it undulates. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: A corny, eye-filling concoction of sound and strife, it recalls the heyday of a dance craze with the Technicolor splash of a 1950s musical. Read more