Italian Films

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May 26
3 min

A Chiara ★★★

In his "Nancy-Drew-meets-the-Mafia film," Carpignano draws a narrative from the fun-loving, sometimes mean-girl teen to a sadly wise adult,

2filmcritics

Jul 26, 2021
4 min

The Truffle Hunters ★★★

These intimate scenes of man and dog capture a world that sharply contrasts with, and that is being lost to, modernity.

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May 15, 2021
3 min

Syndrome K ★★

In German-occupied Rome in 1943, a trio of doctors at a Vatican-owned hospital invented malatia K, a ferociously contagious, deadly disease.

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Oct 24, 2020
5 min

Martin Eden ★★★1/2

It's standard film-making—a familiar tale, told chronologically—with some significant departures from the norm, esp. the change in setting.

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Jun 14, 2020
3 min

“Tommaso” ★★

As a whole, “Tommaso” is not captivating, not seductive, barely worth watching. Ferrara’s latest suffers from an overdose of causation.

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Jun 9, 2020
3 min

L'Innocente ("The Innocent") ★★1/2

"L'Innocente" wallows in excesses of decadent aristocrats: a surfeit of wealth, of hedonism, of moralizing, of color, and of over-acting.

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May 1, 2020
3 min

The Two Popes ★★★

Powerful performances by Anthony Hopkins Jonathan Pryce make it an entertaining film but one that skims the surface of moral issues.

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Feb 12, 2020
3 min

The Traitor (Il Traditore) ★★★1/2

A nuanced psychological portrait of Italy's most famous Mafia informant - he's proud, vain, and claims to have dignity.

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Jul 30, 2018
2 min

A Ciambra ★★★

Exposes the dyads of an expanding world and tribalism, of self-identity and the group, of friendship and family.

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Jun 16, 2018
4 min

Piazza Vittorio ★★★ 1/2

Veteran American director Abel Ferrara gives a movie about a lesser-known side of Rome a broader appeal.

2filmcritics

May 9, 2018
3 min

Loro 1 ★★★

In the film's second hour, Sorrentino's Berlusconi is more pathetic than crude.

Indiscretion of an American Wife ★★1/2 (Stazione Termini)

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Feb 10, 2018
2 min

Indiscretion of an American Wife ★★1/2 (Stazione Termini)

The moralistic social and legal system of the early 1950s cultivates shame, if only for women.

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Dec 3, 2017
2 min

Rome Adventure ★★1/2

A luscious portrait of Rome.

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Jul 19, 2017
2 min

Facing Windows ★★

The object of her illicit desire in the facing window is too good-looking and her husband too brutish.

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Oct 12, 2016
2 min

Mia Madre ★★1/2

One side of Moretti (Giovanni) plays therapist to his other, non-therapeutic side (Margherita).

God's Country

Barbarian

Funny Pages

Resurrection

Bad Luck Banging

Nope

Cha Cha Real Smooth

Kimi

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Mass

The Outfit

Top Gun: Maverick

A Chiara

Happening (L'Événement)

The Northman

King Richard

A Hero (Ghahreman)

CODA

Flee (Flugt)

Parallel Mothers (Madres paraleles)

Nightmare Alley

The Worst Person in the World

Drive My Car

Spencer

Licorice Pizza

Petite Maman

INTERVIEW with Warren Beatty’s Reds historical consultant, Robert A. Rosenstone

Bergman Island

Passing

The Lost Daughter

Belfast

tick, tick...BOOM!

The Power of the Dog

Pig

The French Dispatch

Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez

The Souvenir (Part One)

Dune

Black Bear

No Time to Die

Acasă, My Home (“Acasă”)

No Sudden Move

Quo Vadis, Aida?

Shiva Baby

The Green Knight

White on White

The Truffle Hunters

Zola

In the Heights

Riders of Justice

A Quiet Place Part II

There Is No Evil

Syndrome K

The Forty-Year-Old Version

Judas and the Black Messiah

Crip Camp

The Father

Promising Young Woman

News of the World

Nomadland

Minari

Another Round ("Druk")

Some Kind of Heaven

The White Tiger

One Night in Miami

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Mangrove

Mank

You Never Had It: An Evening with Bukowski

The True Adventures of Wolfboy

The Vast of Night

Martin Eden

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

The Wild Goose Lake

Cuties ("Mignonnes")

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

The Assistant

Palm Springs

Sorry We Missed You

The Painted Bird

The Truth

Bacurau

Da 5 Bloods

Beanpole

Tommaso

L'Innocente ("The Innocent")

The Painter and the Thief

Bad Education

Until the Birds Return

The Two Popes

The Lighthouse

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Midsommar

Ford v Ferrari

American Factory

First Cow

Seberg

Ordinary Love

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

The Traitor/Il Traditore

Uncut Gems

Les Misérables

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Bombshell

1917

Knives Out

Little Women

Marriage Story

Queen & Slim

The Irishman

Cold Brook

Jojo Rabbit

Parasite

Joker

Ad Astra

Pain and Glory

First Love

Downton Abbey

Monos

The Goldfinch

Late Night

Good Boys

The Farewell

Yesterday

Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood

They Shall Not Grow Old

Toy Story 4

Bad Times at the El Royale

Bob Wilson's Life and
Death of Marina
Abramovic

The Sisters Brothers

Gloria Bell

Us

Won't You Be My
Neighbor

Never Look Away

Capernaum

Everybody Knows

Shoplifters

Three Identical Strangers

Minding the Gap

Cold War

The Favourite

Creed II

If Beale Street Could Talk

Roma

Can You Ever Forgive Me

Green Book

The House with a Clock in its Walls

Wildlife

The Kindergarten Teacher

Free Solo

A Star is Born

Museo

Eighth Grade

BlacKkKlansman

Sorry to Bother You

A Ciambra

The First Purge

Piazza Vittorio

Loro 1

My Cousin Rachel

Black Panther

Marshall

Call Me By Your Name

I, Tonya

Mudbound

The Darkest Hour

The Post

The Shape of Water

Indiscretion of an American Wife (Stazione Termini)

Downsizing

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

INTERVIEW with "Blade Runner" Screenwriter Hampton Fancher

Lady Bird

Rome Adventure

Last Flag Flying

Mother!

Blade Runner 2049

Logan Lucky

Wonder Woman

Dunkirk

The Beguiled

Berlin Syndrome

Facing Windows

Baby Driver

Personal Shopper

INTERVIEW with "John Wick" Screenwriter Derek Kolstad

I Am Not Your Negro

Sing

Get Out

The Salesman

Toni Erdmann

Hacksaw Ridge

Hidden Figures

Fences

Arrival

Elle

Lion

La La Land

Hell or High Water

Manchester by the Sea

Moonlight

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Doctor Strange

Florence Foster Jenkins

Demon

Mia Madre

Indignation

Captain Fantastic

Weiner

2 FILM CRITICS

Bill and Dianne's Excellent Adventure

Reviewing Films, Together

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