The Painter and the Thief
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Part dark satire, part compelling drama, Reality occasionally struggles to communicate its message, but it's never less than entertaining.
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It's clear that Garrone is lamenting the death of culture. But the movie is more compassionate than screed-y. It's a portrait of the preoccupation with fame in an age in which in fame is cheap. January 3, 2014 | Full Review…
It's clear that Garrone is lamenting the death of culture. But the movie is more compassionate than screed-y. It's a portrait of the preoccupation with fame in an age in which in fame is cheap.
Wesley Morris
The satire here is finespun, and the film's conclusions ambiguous. April 5, 2013 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
The satire here is finespun, and the film's conclusions ambiguous.
Michael O'Sullivan
A dark allegorical comedy about the nature of fame, about obsession, about madness - and the point where they converge: on Big Brother, a TV show watched by millions. April 4, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
A dark allegorical comedy about the nature of fame, about obsession, about madness - and the point where they converge: on Big Brother, a TV show watched by millions.
Steven Rea
For all its ups and downs and occasional detours into boorishness, it's an original that will surprise if not necessarily delight fans of Garrone's very different crime drama, "Gomorrah." April 4, 2013 | Rating: 2.5/4
For all its ups and downs and occasional detours into boorishness, it's an original that will surprise if not necessarily delight fans of Garrone's very different crime drama, "Gomorrah."
John Hartl
Matteo Garrone follows his crime epic Gomorrah with a comedy about reality TV, and though it hardly rivals the earlier movie in its social complexity, it still offers the spectacle of a vibrant and vividly realized Neapolitan neighborhood. March 28, 2013 | Full Review…
Matteo Garrone follows his crime epic Gomorrah with a comedy about reality TV, and though it hardly rivals the earlier movie in its social complexity, it still offers the spectacle of a vibrant and vividly realized Neapolitan neighborhood.
J. R. Jones
As cautionary tales go, this one's ripely knowing, and it speaks in a lot more languages than Italian. March 28, 2013 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
As cautionary tales go, this one's ripely knowing, and it speaks in a lot more languages than Italian.
Ty Burr
Explores the pratfalls of celebrity with the unashamed extravagance and reckless abandon of reality TV and its many characters. February 13, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Explores the pratfalls of celebrity with the unashamed extravagance and reckless abandon of reality TV and its many characters.
Chris Fennell
Reality can be as slow-moving as watching the 24-hour webcam in the Big Brother house. But the payoffs are greater. December 12, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Reality can be as slow-moving as watching the 24-hour webcam in the Big Brother house. But the payoffs are greater.
Kelly Jane Torrance
... no one is going to walk away from it with any questions about what [director Matteo Garrone] thinks of reality TV. That makes the ending quite startling.... It's too bad the first 100 minutes couldn't have taken the same approach. February 21, 2018 | Full Review…
... no one is going to walk away from it with any questions about what [director Matteo Garrone] thinks of reality TV. That makes the ending quite startling.... It's too bad the first 100 minutes couldn't have taken the same approach.
Steve Erickson
The parallels between religion and hollow TV celebrity addiction are belaboured in this overdrawn satire that ends up as an eloquently shot study of a deluded man's disintegration. September 1, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The parallels between religion and hollow TV celebrity addiction are belaboured in this overdrawn satire that ends up as an eloquently shot study of a deluded man's disintegration.
Angie Errigo
It's all very well done, with evocative character actors like those used by Fellini, and settings reminiscent of Vittorio De Sica's 1960s comedies. March 22, 2016 | Full Review…
It's all very well done, with evocative character actors like those used by Fellini, and settings reminiscent of Vittorio De Sica's 1960s comedies.
Hannah Brown
In this echo chamber of fame-for-fame's-sake, real life imitates reel life. There's a lurid, Felliniesque sheen to Garrone's floating camerawork; this is reality tweaked, dialed up to 10.1. And there's a cheeky, sideways satire of Roman Catholicism. August 6, 2014 | Full Review…
In this echo chamber of fame-for-fame's-sake, real life imitates reel life. There's a lurid, Felliniesque sheen to Garrone's floating camerawork; this is reality tweaked, dialed up to 10.1. And there's a cheeky, sideways satire of Roman Catholicism.
Brian Gibson
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