Nothing quite prepares you for the unique experience of this film. It's an offer that you ... well, you know. Leave the gun, take the cannolis. Mangiate bene.
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03/16/07
Mafioso (1962)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:49
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.2/10
Consensus: Mafioso begins as an amusing farce and skillfully transforms into a portentous social drama.
Theatrical Release:Jan 19, 2007 Limited
Reviews for Mafioso
Mafioso may have been made in another era, but it stands as a classy, even radical rebuke to the film school posers who keep recycling the same tired gangster tropes.
03/15/07
It takes a while to adjust to its rhythm, but this is essential viewing for cinephiles.
03/15/07
Top CriticThis 1962 film is a marvel, a piece before its time that is incredibly funny while delivering a gut punch of a morality drama.
03/10/07
Filmed in Milan, Sicily, and New York, Alberto Lattuada's 1962 black comedy is one of his most critically suc
03/10/07
Is it a droll drama? A dark comedy? Let's just say that the film's startling shifts in mood fit this movie about a man and country divided. And that it appears to be padrino to The Godfather.
03/09/07
Top CriticUnclassifiable, ultimately gripping 1962 film about a Sicilian native who discovers he can't resist the corrupting power of what The Godfather would later dub 'this Sicilian thing.'
03/09/07
I will say this: If you love mob movies, Mafioso is a must.
03/09/07
Top CriticStrange, entertaining and disquieting.
03/09/07
Try to connect the movie's two parts: the spry comedy and the deadly serious piece of Mafia business
03/08/07
Feels fresh as a daisy ... a consistently entertaining satire where the huffing and puffing comedic bluster hides a surprisingly bitter sucker punch.
03/07/07
... as he grows more real and complex, it becomes impossible to regard this very funny film simply as a comedy.
02/05/07
The [main] actor's every-paesan persona makes the film's coda such an effectively bittersweet punch line: Behind every local-boy-made-good success story, there apparently lies a history of violence and tears.
02/03/07
[Actor] Alberto Sordi lifts buffoonery to the level of high art.
02/02/07
Top CriticA magnificent film almost no one knows about, this hidden classic offers a wider variety of pleasures than most contemporary works can even aspire to.
01/26/07
Top CriticIt's another bygone classic that's as fresh today as it was 45 years ago ...
01/26/07
An exuberant and always riveting mosaic of comedy, drama, social comment, suspense, psychological insight and travelogue.
01/22/07
Watching this buoyantly melancholy dark comedy, originally released in 1962, is like discovering a lost world.
01/20/07
Top Critic[Director] Lattuada still moves the story forward with cold and devious skill. He knows how to get you to laugh, and he knows how to make that laugh stick in your throat.
01/19/07
Top CriticMafioso isn't likely to receive the critical exultation accorded Army of Shadows, but still it should not be missed.
01/19/07
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