8 1/2 Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
If a Fellini fan, this one is a must see.
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| Original Score: B
Matt's Movie Reviews
A marvellous and immensely personal piece of self analysis, which journeys into the heart, mind and soul of its illustrious director, Frederico Fellini.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Old School Reviews
gets to the core of creativity
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| Original Score: A+
MSN.com
... a delightful piece of filmmaking full of imaginative flights of creative delirium and accomplished with wit, verve, style, grace, and a tongue-in-cheek joy.
Slant Magazine
There's no clean way to boil the characters of 8 1/2 down to their psychoanalytical essence.
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| Original Score: 3/4
EmanuelLevy.Com
Fellini has made many masterpieces, but this 1963 Oscar-winner is arguably one of his most brilliant and influential films, boasting a seminal performance from Marcello Mastroianni.
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| Original Score: A
Film4
[A] fascinating and highly-influential masterpiece from Federico Fellini.
It's Fellini's last black-and-white picture and conceivably the most gorgeous and inventive thing he ever did.
Here is the author-director picture par excellence, an exciting, stimulating, monumental creation.
Time Out
Top CriticAmiably spiking all criticism through a gloomy scriptwriter mouthpiece, Fellini pulls a multitude of rabbits out of the showman's hat.
Combustible Celluloid
Fellini's manic, larger-than-life 8 1/2 rules as the king of all Italian movies.
Arizona Daily Star
Fellini was so incredibly creative that when he was mentally blocked, he turned his inner struggle into a phenomenal masterpiece of introspection.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Decent Films Guide
Fellini's flights into the surreal are his self-examination and confession. Alas, unlike Bergman, his confession is without moral rigor; he wants to be indulged, not absolved.
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| Original Score: B-
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Brilliant Fellini film -- probably his best.
| Original Score: 5/5
