Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
8 |
...beautifully well-mounted. |
Chicago Tribune
Betsy Sharkey |
7 |
...wrenching... |
filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin |
8 |
...grandiose... |
New York Post
V. A. Musetto |
7 |
Daniele Cipri's highly stylized lensing and Carlo Crivelli's bold score add to the movie's flamboyant aura. But then, the story of a bombastic dictator deserves a bombastic telling. |
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker |
8 |
...the Italian master calls on his highly refined cinematic art to restore a forgotten woman to a historical record so often rewritten to serve the brutal demands of political power. |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
9 |
...riveting... |
New York Times
Manohla Dargis |
10 |
...a sustained, alternatingly exhausting and aesthetically exhilarating howl of a film... |
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey |
7 |
...wrenching... |
LA Weekly
Rob Nelson |
9 |
...is the veteran director's stylistic knockout, a movie whose audacious editing fully captures the hot and heavy relationships between past and present, sex and politics, reality and, yes, cinema. |
Village Voice
Rob Nelson |
9 |
...is the veteran director's stylistic knockout, a movie whose audacious editing fully captures the hot and heavy relationships between past and present, sex and politics, reality and, yes, cinema. |
Onion AV Club
Noel Murray |
8 |
...an operatic, ambitious sketch of Benito Mussolini’s rise to power. |
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer |
10 |
...an amazing, galvanic experience. It's about the hushed-up story of Benito Mussolini's first wife and child, but no one will ever mistake this movie for a standard biopic. It's too raw, too primal. |
Variety
Jay Weissberg |
9 |
Conceived as grand opera set inside delineated space, it's a thrilling, at times brilliant piece of staging that never forgets the emotional pull of either the tragic personal tale or the ramifications of history. |
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