This feature might work better as a television series, but Garcia himself gives the picture some much-needed ballast.

I won't make great claims for Raymond De Felitta's film - it hardly makes them for itself - but I will say this for it: as an ensemble acting workout, it exceeds expectations from the top down.

An at-times marvellous muddle of high farce and low-brow chuckles.

In City Island a dysfunctional family learns to function in a fun act of collective contrition. [Full review in Spanish]