(2.5 stars)

Though she plays its vampy femme fatale, Jennifer Lopez is constantly receding from “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” The latest incarnation of Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel places its two prison cellmates — Molina, an eccentric romantic, and Valentín, a pragmatic revolutionary — squarely at the erotic and emotional center. J-Lo is essentially an elaborate distraction, which is just fine as the story goes, but not exactly a kinetic position for a star.

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