Youth Without Youth Reviews
CinePassion
Finds the filmmaker admirably working without a safety net
Film Freak Central
Very much a film of this era, its director returning after a ten-year absence from the cinema with a peculiar little masterpiece about things unrecoverable in time.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Top CriticYouth Without Youth smacks of vanity project from the first poetic moments to the last, and whose vanity lays a stronger claim to the big screen than Francis Ford Coppola's?
At the Movies (Australia)
For all its flaws and there aren't very many, with Youth Without Youth you know you're in the hands of a master.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Projection Booth
You want a story? Read the front page. I'm here for the picture show.
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| Original Score: A
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Though not an easy film to grasp or possibly enjoy, it's nevertheless a mindblowing acid-like excursion into the secret world of Orientalism.
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| Original Score: B
Arizona Daily Star
It would be easier to sit back and rest on his legend rather than press on as an average filmmaker, which is what Coppola has become.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Baltimore Sun
This film's playful visual language pulls you in rather than shuts you out; it isn't difficult to decipher, and it enables Coppola and his editor, Walter Murch, to navigate the story's many realms with a directness and dexterity that are refreshing.
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| Original Score: B
Oregonian
Coppola is still a master image maker, and there are moments of genuine beauty and cinematic power in Youth Without Youth that cannot be waved off with a shrug or a laugh.
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| Original Score: B-
San Diego Union-Tribune
Coppola has conviction even with the airiest elements. The churn and sweep of time, memory, karma, the whole enchilada of fate, give the story a weirdly compulsive charm.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Los Angeles CityBeat
[It may be a ] kind of aesthetic mutant, but it's the sort of film whose weakest points only make it more interesting.
eFilmCritic.com
I suspect that it will be registered as one of those fascinating follies that retains its mystique and allure long after the memory of the more successful films of the season has faded into nothing.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
... Coppola isn't as invested in the ideas as he is in their cinematic expression.
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| Original Score: B-
Youth Without Youth is well worth seeing.
Francis Ford Coppola's first film in a decade is perhaps the most complex, exasperating and challenging material he's ever directed.
eFilmCritic.com
Francis Ford Coppola is making movies again, and that's reason enough to rejoice. Even if it ends up a baffling intellectual riff, Youth Without Youth still resonates deeply in ways younger filmmakers would never even dare consider.
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| Original Score: B-
Youth Without Youth is a narratively ambitious, visually sumptuous surrealist enterprise that tries to bend time and space together as neatly as the folds in an origami swan.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The movie has been labeled 'stilted,' 'soporific,' and 'a pretentious, meandering mess.' But you certainly couldn't call it conventional, predictable, or pandering. This film is stubbornly, almost insanely, itself.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Challenges one to keep up, but its destination is disappointingly simplistic. Just the same, I look back on the film with a wry smile.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Kansas City Star
A classic example of the "what-was-he-thinking?" movie, Youth Without Youth unfolds in a sort of formal dream state devoid of day-to-day normalcy.
| Original Score: 2/4
