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- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Sorrentino sembra sempre piu’ innamorato di se’ e del proprio talento. Ammazzerebbe per un carrello o un rallenty, un plonge’ o uno zoom ben fatto. Il suo cinema è diventato un trionfo di manierismo senza confini e senza piu’ limiti. Solo che questa volta, in preda ai suoi demoni si e’ scordato il film.
- David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: With Youth, it’s now undeniable that he is one of the best directors working today, in no small part because he understands that movies can be powerful and expansive without sacrificing intimacy and personal resonance. In fact, he makes films that are as big as cinema should be, the size of the mind.
- Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
- [New – 1/7/16] | Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A distinctive and alluring blend of soul searching and philosophical musings amid the challenges of conscious aging.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The filmmaker is in need of self editing, his ideas spiraling in too many directions, his points often dropping like two ton weights. But he ends on a soaring note, his finale featuring soprano Sumi Jo a thing of great beauty indeed.
- Jim Dixon @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: Paolo Sorrentino obviously adores, even venerates Fellini, and openly imitates him. There are dozens of extras in “Youth,” playing spa guests and staff, whose faces parade by in a Fellinian gallery of grotesques. Cinephiles may find it entertaining to note the references, but more casual audiences are likely to find the surreal, dreamlike and even hallucinatory touches annoying.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Youth has a lot to say, and boy, does the movie ever say it.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Kimberly Gadette @ doddle
- Excerpt: Glorious Sorrentino film acknowledges that even at the end of the ever-diminishing day, ‘youth’ might still be considered a fountain within reach. Even at the age of 80.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Idiosyncratic and exquisite, it’s an empathetic meditation on the human spirit.
- Roderick Heath @ This Island Rod
- Excerpt: In spite of its many qualities, though, taken as a work in whole Youth counts as one of the bigger bellyflops I’ve seen from a major director in recent years.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Jane Fonda carps that “Human beings really know how to be pathetic when they want to be”. Bless her, because I couldn’t have said it better myself.
- Courtney Howard @ Sassy Mama In LA
- Allyson Johnson @ CambridgeDay.com
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: A brilliant film; one of the best of the year. Sit back and let it just wash over you.
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Excerpt: Sorrentino has prepared an elaborate airy dessert, but served it insisting it’s the entire meal.
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Emanuel Levy @ www.Emanuellevy.com
- Alan Mattli @ Facing the Bitter Truth [German]
- Excerpt: Paolo Sorrentino’s latest is not quite as consummate an achievement as Oscar winner ‘La grande bellezza’, but it is still a beautiful, deeply stirring film.
- Jared Mobarak @ Jared Mobarak Reviews
- Excerpt: What strange beauty writer/director Paolo Sorrentino finds within the sadness of his palatial Swiss Alps resort’s inhabitants in Youth. The story plays like a surrealistic existential revelation—the aftermaths of each character’s crisis as they discover exactly who they are in the midst of tragic knowing.
- Patrick Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
- Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: There are some striking scenes and moments. But Sorrentino is too much in thrall to the master, Fellini; he never seems to get an original feel for the material, and make it matter.
- Rob Wallis @ The Metropolist
- Excerpt: There’s a lot of life to Sorrentino’s work here, and grand statements; some convincing, others less so.
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