Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 98
Fresh: 88 | Rotten: 10
A well-acted and thrilling coming-of-age tale that captures a child awakening to the frightening world of adults.
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 4
A well-acted and thrilling coming-of-age tale that captures a child awakening to the frightening world of adults.
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It's 1978 and the hottest summer of the century in Apulia, a village in southern Italy. The few adults that live in this desolate place have retreated inside their houses to escape the murderous heat. The only ones who dare to venture outside are the kids, who ride around on their bicycles in the midst of golden cornfields. When nine-year-old Michele comes across a boy shackled in a hole, he discovers that the entire town may be complicit in an evil ransom scheme.
R, 1 hr. 50 min.
Drama, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy
Mar 14, 2003 Wide
Oct 19, 2004
$1.4M
Miramax Films
All Critics (106) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (90) | Rotten (10) | DVD (12)
A lyrical throwback to such movies as René Clément's Forbidden Games (1952) and other works of the humanist European cinema of a half century ago.
The director reminds us that not all films require a breakneck pace or ridiculous twists to be effective.
The performances are all terrific. Each one suggests an entire story that we can only glimpse.
An accomplished and evocative thriller from Italy.
An Italian drama that restores the overused phrase 'loss of innocence' to something meaningful and memorable.
A good story told with energy and efficiency.
"I'm Not Scared" suffers from ill-conceived staging and sluggish pacing. The film's theme that altruism and ignorance are punished is a careless postulate drawn from a kidnapping spree in Italy during the late '70s.
Delicado em seu retrato da infância, peca apenas pela conclusão frouxa, quando o próprio filme torna-se infantil.
Harmoniously blends elements of a coming-of-age story, a crime drama and a mystery together in something of astonishing power and scope.
This is a visually stunning film, an intelligently consummated marriage of genres resulting in a movie that is, if not unique, at least very special.
Few movies evoke the wonder and terror of childhood as this film does.
I'm Not Scared is a beautifully crafted film, top to bottom.
I'm Not Scared takes its time unfolding, and it's all the more powerful and gripping for doing so. ...it keeps our attention and feeds our worst anxieties.
...a fascinating, if frustrating, look at the relative lack of power and security and place a child has in our modern world.
Visually striking and exceptionally performed by old and young alike, I'm Not Scared plucks the nerves.
Part suspenseful thriller and part coming-of-age drama, I'm Not Scared is a minor masterpiece of film making from director Gabriele Salvatores. It's a story of crime and courage, a story of a young boy's realization that there is evil in the world and those nearest him are not only aware of it, they may be a part of
January 15, 2009
Super Reviewer
This magical Italian rite of passage movie manages to do some difficult things very well but is less successful when bogged down with the demands of conventional storytelling. When it's going nowhere in particular, just showing something vaguely sinister chipping away at a boy's innocence, the film works brilliantly.
October 3, 2008Super Reviewer
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