Frida

Sometimes we feel as if the film careens from one colorful event to another without respite, but sometimes it must have seemed to Frida Kahlo as if her life did, too.

A dynamic portrait of an artist by an artist, one as wry, audacious and erotically charged as its flamboyant subject.

Endlessly interesting. It's about people who thought ideas and art mattered, which makes it a rarity today.

Endlessly interesting. It's about people who thought ideas and art mattered, which makes it a rarity today.

Salma Hayek makes the character an icon of female independence, courage and nonconformity, forecasting special appeal for women viewers.

If you want rich folk-art colors, brainy spectacle, and breezy soap opera, then Frida is the biopic for you.

A romance for the deeply romantic, which means that some people will certainly view it as cynical.

At its best when it forsakes earnest psychological exposition for magic realism, when, instead of trying to explain Kahlo's life, it conjures the moods and sensations that fed her art.

At its best when it forsakes earnest psychological exposition for magic realism, when, instead of trying to explain Kahlo's life, it conjures the moods and sensations that fed her art.

Swank and splashy as it is, Frida leaves the lurking suspicion that Taymor might have preferred to stage her pageant as a puppet show.