60
Starts out slow but ends up engaging both heart and mind, despite occasional slips into straight melodrama.
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40
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
The movie is quiet, modest and sympathetic almost to a fault; its scenes of emotional discord, accompanied by a swooning, sniffling score, seem best suited to cable television. It's like a Lifetime movie about men.
50
New Times (L.A.) by David Ehrenstein
Vera's technical prowess ends up selling his film short; he smoothes over hard truths even as he uncovers them.
30
Apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given daytime soap.
50
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
So sudsy it should have been rinsed off before being allowed into theaters.
40
Lukewarm melodrama disappoints.
80
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Vera has created a provocative, absorbing drama that reveals the curse of a self-hatred instilled by rigid social mores.
40
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Despite some strong performances, never rises above the level of a telanovela.
38
But by the time events unfold, viewers will most likely have given up on this melodramatic.