Eva Longoria’s ‘Flamin’ Hot’ Knows Exactly What It’s Selling

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson / The Daily Beast / Hulu / Getty. Movie review by Laura Bradley. The Daily Beast – June 6, 2023.

Partway through his rags-to-riches origin story Flamin’ Hot, our plucky protagonist and narrator Richard Montañez pauses for an aside—a kind of record-scratch moment. It happens right after we watch an itty-bitty Montañez cuffed and shoved into a police car, after trying to buy chocolate for his crush (and future wife) with money he’d rightfully earned. “When the world treats you like a criminal, you become one,” […]

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