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Cinema Paradiso is a life-affirming ode to the power of youth, nostalgia, and the the movies themselves.
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[Salvatore Cascio's] adorabilty-quotient can be a bit hard to take, but this is one of the better pieces of screen moppetry in recent years. December 6, 2018 | Full Review…
[Salvatore Cascio's] adorabilty-quotient can be a bit hard to take, but this is one of the better pieces of screen moppetry in recent years.
Adam Mars-Jones
Cinema Paradiso is much loved, though I have occasionally been the man in the Bateman cartoon: the reviewer who confessed to finding Cinema Paradiso a bit sugary and the kid really annoying. December 12, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Cinema Paradiso is much loved, though I have occasionally been the man in the Bateman cartoon: the reviewer who confessed to finding Cinema Paradiso a bit sugary and the kid really annoying.
Peter Bradshaw
Tornatore may have hit a sticky wicket with his subsequent work, but he knew what he was doing here: warning us about the irrational lure of the filmed past, which is to say cinema itself, then ushering us grandly to our seats. December 12, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Tornatore may have hit a sticky wicket with his subsequent work, but he knew what he was doing here: warning us about the irrational lure of the filmed past, which is to say cinema itself, then ushering us grandly to our seats.
Robbie Collin
Its confidence is staggering. And its commitment to a classic narrative that is also essentially a parable story, markedly unusual. They really don't make them like that any more. December 12, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Its confidence is staggering. And its commitment to a classic narrative that is also essentially a parable story, markedly unusual. They really don't make them like that any more.
Antonia Quirke
A bald-faced act of unalloyed, weapons grade sentimentalism in which humanity is drained of anything with even a passing resemblance to a soul. December 12, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
A bald-faced act of unalloyed, weapons grade sentimentalism in which humanity is drained of anything with even a passing resemblance to a soul.
David Jenkins
Returning to cinemas in spiffily remastered form ... the film retains its wide-eyed charm, pitched halfway between unrestrained romanticism and unknowing kitsch. December 9, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Returning to cinemas in spiffily remastered form ... the film retains its wide-eyed charm, pitched halfway between unrestrained romanticism and unknowing kitsch.
Guy Lodge
Ask me what it is about movies I love so much, and I'll tell you to see Cinema Paradiso for your answer. August 5, 2020 | Full Review…
Ask me what it is about movies I love so much, and I'll tell you to see Cinema Paradiso for your answer.
Allen Almachar
It's another clean, colorful community with an unreal sense of vitality, everyone playing a comfortable role in the neat storyline. May 20, 2020 | Full Review…
It's another clean, colorful community with an unreal sense of vitality, everyone playing a comfortable role in the neat storyline.
Bruce C. Steele
Cinema Paradiso itself possesses enough command and self-conviction to demonstrate that movies can still manage to manifest an alternative universe. January 11, 2020 | Full Review…
Cinema Paradiso itself possesses enough command and self-conviction to demonstrate that movies can still manage to manifest an alternative universe.
Tim Pulleine
A treat. May 17, 2019 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
A treat.
Rachel Wagner
Giuseppe Tornatore's film is a charming and gently humorous work of semi-autobiography, composed with an attentive painter's eye and a cinematic cross- referencing of images and motifs. April 9, 2019 | Full Review…
Giuseppe Tornatore's film is a charming and gently humorous work of semi-autobiography, composed with an attentive painter's eye and a cinematic cross- referencing of images and motifs.
Hilary Mantel
This is one of the finest films about innocence ever made, a perfect picture of a time when the cinema was the only source of laughter and joy. February 23, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
This is one of the finest films about innocence ever made, a perfect picture of a time when the cinema was the only source of laughter and joy.
Camilla Long
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