The Traitor Reviews

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A.A. Dowd
AV Club
May 24, 2019
There's just no real perspective on Buscetta, which separates this brisk but uninvolving history lesson from the truly great mob movies.
Full Review | Original Score: C+
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David Ehrlich
indieWire
May 24, 2019
By the time "The Traitor" finds its way back to Buscetta for an overextended final stretch that trafficks in all of the usual symbology of paranoia, he's become both too complicated for us to understand and too simple for us to care about.
Full Review | Original Score: C
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Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
May 23, 2019
The Traitor is big, bold, confident film-making.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
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Deborah Young
Hollywood Reporter
May 23, 2019
One of the most revealing portraits of the Cosa Nostra on film.
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Jay Weissberg
Variety
May 23, 2019
It's clearly made by a master filmmaker questioning the nature of repentance, and as such is far from superficial; and yet while it never loses our attention, it also doesn't deliver much of a punch.
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