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An epic, breathtakingly stylish cinematic landmark, La Dolce Vita remains riveting in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- its sprawling length.
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It is a brilliant film, but there is nothing sweet about it. Jan 3, 2020 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
It is a brilliant film, but there is nothing sweet about it.
Peter Bradshaw
This film defined a decade before the decade arrived. Dec 23, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
This film defined a decade before the decade arrived.
Nigel Andrews
Fellini has set out to move us with the depravity of contemporary life and has chosen what seems to me a poor method: cataloging sins. Very soon we find ourselves thinking: Is that all? May 1, 2013 | Full Review…
Fellini has set out to move us with the depravity of contemporary life and has chosen what seems to me a poor method: cataloging sins. Very soon we find ourselves thinking: Is that all?
Stanley Kauffmann
Everything has changed, and nothing has changed. How sour it still is. Jun 1, 2011 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Everything has changed, and nothing has changed. How sour it still is.
David Fear
Perhaps many spectators will squirm at the three-hour length of the film or of some of its sequences (though director Federico Fellini cut some 30 minutes from his final print), yet others will never notice they've sat that long. May 8, 2007 | Full Review…
Perhaps many spectators will squirm at the three-hour length of the film or of some of its sequences (though director Federico Fellini cut some 30 minutes from his final print), yet others will never notice they've sat that long.
Variety Staff
The film was hugely successful and widely praised in its time, though it's really nothing more than the old C.B. De Mille formula of titillation and moralizing. May 8, 2007 | Full Review…
The film was hugely successful and widely praised in its time, though it's really nothing more than the old C.B. De Mille formula of titillation and moralizing.
Dave Kehr
It has become a time capsule: an exotic picture of a bygone Rome. Jan 7, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It has become a time capsule: an exotic picture of a bygone Rome.
Edward Porter
Seven nights become seven mornings, with episodic interludes intentionally echoing one another in provocative, sometimes blasphemous ways, the scared alternating with the profane. Aug 29, 2019 | Full Review…
Seven nights become seven mornings, with episodic interludes intentionally echoing one another in provocative, sometimes blasphemous ways, the scared alternating with the profane.
Sean Burns
"La Dolce Vita" translates to "The Sweet Life," but around my house it translates to "The Best Movie Ever." Jun 11, 2019 | Full Review…
"La Dolce Vita" translates to "The Sweet Life," but around my house it translates to "The Best Movie Ever."
Asher Luberto
Dolce Vita is a sensational film, using the word in the dictionary as well as the press agent's meaning. That is, it goes in mostly for effects. Often quite good ones... But still effects. Feb 10, 2019 | Full Review…
Dolce Vita is a sensational film, using the word in the dictionary as well as the press agent's meaning. That is, it goes in mostly for effects. Often quite good ones... But still effects.
Dwight MacDonald
'60s Fellini classic has sex, drinking, suicide. Oct 19, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
'60s Fellini classic has sex, drinking, suicide.
Barbara Shulgasser
A lovely Italian palette that questions if we can settle down to a life of struggle without having first lived life at its best. Aug 15, 2011 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
A lovely Italian palette that questions if we can settle down to a life of struggle without having first lived life at its best.
Wesley Lovell
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