How to Be a Latin Lover

Name: How to Be a Latin Lover
Director: Ken Marino
Released: 2017

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Synopsis

An aging Latin lover gets dumped by his sugar mama and must fend for himself in a harsh world.

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Arizona Republic
There are quite a few genuine laughs along the way. Director Ken Marino has a firm hand with big, silly slapstick, but he also knows how to make the most of dialogue.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Marino...is equally at home directing the broader physical comedy and sweeter bonding sequences between Maximo and Hugo, even as the overlong film's two distinct personalities never manage to coalesce into a self-contained whole.
60
Variety
There are some very funny bits and pieces scattered amid the proceedings, along with a few darkly comical gags that appear to belong in a different movie, but are more than welcome here.
60
TheWrap
Derbez brings warmth and intermittent goofy humor to this too-broad and uneven comedy.
60
Los Angeles Times
Its humor is broad, but most of the jokes work for the intended audience — with a few even breaking through to more resistant viewers.
60
The New York Times
The whole enterprise is so fundamentally good-natured and fluffy that it’s sometimes hard to stay annoyed by it.
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Screen Daily
Starting off as a strained farce before segueing into a sappy family film, How To Be A Latin Lover has its likeable, goofy moments, although it is consistently undercut by a main character who is very difficult to love.
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The A.V. Club
The difference between this film and the majority of late-period Sandler flicks—besides the fact that nobody goes on vacation and that the dialogue is partly in Spanish—is that it’s pretty funny in spots.