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Dogman offers a grim character study set apart by Marcello Fonte's performance and director Matteo Garrone's tight grip on the material.
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Italians do social realism like no one else. The story of a put-upon dog groomer standing up to his bully gets more tracking than anybody could imagine. A must. February 6, 2020 | Full Review…
Italians do social realism like no one else. The story of a put-upon dog groomer standing up to his bully gets more tracking than anybody could imagine. A must.
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
Matteo Garrone fully unfolds his narrative resources in a remarkable handling of irony and suspense. [Full Review in Spanish] November 25, 2019 | Full Review…
Matteo Garrone fully unfolds his narrative resources in a remarkable handling of irony and suspense. [Full Review in Spanish]
Carlos Bonfil
A very uncomfortable film, but I liked it a lot anyways. September 27, 2019 | Full Review…
A very uncomfortable film, but I liked it a lot anyways.
Tim Cogshell
It's a pleasure - of sorts - to see the director back with such well-crafted and vibrantly realised characters, caught once again in his nightmarish cinematic web of loneliness and self-delusion. September 24, 2019 | Full Review…
It's a pleasure - of sorts - to see the director back with such well-crafted and vibrantly realised characters, caught once again in his nightmarish cinematic web of loneliness and self-delusion.
Jason Di Rosso
A bleak but fascinating study in crime, character and toxic masculinity from the director of the acclaimed 2008 Neapolitan Mafia movie Gomorrah. September 9, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A bleak but fascinating study in crime, character and toxic masculinity from the director of the acclaimed 2008 Neapolitan Mafia movie Gomorrah.
Vicky Roach
It's obvious that Marcello the dogman is not just the keeper of a pooch parlour, he has a full set of dog-like instincts. September 2, 2019 | Full Review…
It's obvious that Marcello the dogman is not just the keeper of a pooch parlour, he has a full set of dog-like instincts.
John McDonald
With his hugely expressive eyes, Fonte (an amateur actor in a community centre drama that Garrone met by chance) is a major reason Dogman works so devastatingly well. August 30, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
With his hugely expressive eyes, Fonte (an amateur actor in a community centre drama that Garrone met by chance) is a major reason Dogman works so devastatingly well.
Lynden Barber
Suffused with a very dark vein of black humour, the film is dramatically tense and emotionally raw. August 30, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Suffused with a very dark vein of black humour, the film is dramatically tense and emotionally raw.
David Stratton
[Matteo] Garrone returns to the grim, violent mood of his Gomorrah here, although the perspective is more intimate and personal than that film, and we're left much less sure about where our loyalties should lie. August 30, 2019 | Full Review…
[Matteo] Garrone returns to the grim, violent mood of his Gomorrah here, although the perspective is more intimate and personal than that film, and we're left much less sure about where our loyalties should lie.
David 'Mad Dog' Bradley
Marcello is a humble dog groomer who nurses a soft spot for canines giant and tiny along with a tidy sideline in cocaine supply. August 28, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Marcello is a humble dog groomer who nurses a soft spot for canines giant and tiny along with a tidy sideline in cocaine supply.
Andiee Paviour
Dogman can be unpleasant to watch, as films about bullying commonly are. But on its own terms it's well-made and even gripping. August 23, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Dogman can be unpleasant to watch, as films about bullying commonly are. But on its own terms it's well-made and even gripping.
Jake Wilson
Garrone originally wanted Roberto Benigni for this role, for his ability to combine humor with pathos; the unschooled Fonte is able to provide those same qualities without the hysterical mugging Benigni often slips into. August 16, 2019 | Full Review…
Garrone originally wanted Roberto Benigni for this role, for his ability to combine humor with pathos; the unschooled Fonte is able to provide those same qualities without the hysterical mugging Benigni often slips into.
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