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This movie (written by Robert Mark Kamen, Mark Miller and Harvey Weitzman) is slicker and neater than director Alfonso Arau's widely beloved Like Water for Chocolate, but the calculated naivete of its fabulism can be just as irritating. Yet if you're willing to be wowed, there's also a kind of romantic grandeur about the piece, something inspiriting in its sweeping statement of broad, basic emotions...
Medina, under questioning by investigators for Colombia's independent chief prosecutor, Alfonso Valdivieso, not only gave up Botero but also claimed that the dirty money was raised with Samper's full knowledge...
directed by Alfonso Arau...
While the actors portraying the Aragon family aren't coping with utterly idiotic dialogue or language swings, they turn out fantastic performances. The scenes in which all three generations of women gather to prepare meals live up to the quality of those in the last film directed by Alfonso Arau, 'Like Water for Chocolate.' These gentle, touching, brief moments represent what the movie could have been...
While the decisions involving race and religion made the biggest headlines, the term's most significant case may yet turn out to be U.S. v. Alfonso Lopez Jr. It overturned a federal law forbidding firearms within 1,000 feet of a school, yet it was not the impact on gun control that gave Lopez its long-lasting potential. At real issue was the reach of federal power under the provision of the Constitution that allows Congress to regulate commerce between the states...