Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: I think that people unfamiliar with The Sopranos or who, like me, have some information but did not watch the show will find The Many Saints of Newark both puzzling and frustrating.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: If you are looking for just why Tony Soprano became Tony Soprano, you’ll find more to muddy the waters than clear them here, although the film does a wonderful job analyzing Tony’s mother Livia (played brilliantly by Vera Farmiga, whose nose prosthetic makes her look uncannily like Edie Falco, a creepy bit of psychological serendipity which, if planned, is the most revealing thing about the adult Tony).
- James Jay Edwards @ The Big Smoke America
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: The performances are terrific, the evocation of the period striking, but it feels redundant, more GoodFellas-lite than The Sopranos, and with several TV seasons’ worth of story crammed in.
- [New] | Mark Leeper @ Mark Leeper’s Reviews
- Excerpt: THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK is a prequel to the HBO series “The Sopranos” which tells the story of the childhood and youth of Tony Soprano, and of the family and other characters around him with whom we are familiar from that series.
- Christian Long @ Glide Magazine
- Excerpt: A disappointing blemish on TV’s greatest legacy
- Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: Credit goes to Chase and co-writer Lawrence Konner, who are well aware that it was essential to write a film that tells its own story.
