Don't Tempt Me(Sin noticias de Dios)

Village Voice by

Imagines Heaven and Hell as places so deeply mired in the business-as-usual hassles of earthly life that the battle between good and evil becomes a downright dull affair.

The New York Times by Dave Kehr

An unfocused, overplotted, painfully derivative comic fantasy.

New York Daily News by Jami Bernard

A stylish comedy low on amusement but high on sensuality.

The A.V. Club by Keith Phipps

This must all make sense to Yanes, somehow, but the film plays like a private joke with no punchline.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

It's hard to care even just a little when you have no idea what's at stake or why, be it Heaven or Hell.

Portland Oregonian by Kim Morgan

Short on both life and laughs.

New York Post by Lou Lumenick

What starts as a fairly lighthearted satire ends in a tiresome, ultra-violent shootout -- and the film pretty much throws away the possibilities of Cruz's gender-bending role.

Dallas Observer by Robert Wilonsky

Bernal can't decide if he's making a Tarantino homage or an Almodovar riff or an Albert Brooks tribute...and the wobbly sensibility finally knocks the movie's legs out from beneath it altogether.

Chicago Reader by Ted Shen

The color-coded cinematography is nice but the jokes are obvious and the dialogue drags whenever metaphysics gets brought up.