The Great Beauty

"Writer/director Paolo Sorrentino makes big, brassy films about all things Italian – not for everyone, or every mood – but his latest effort won this year's Best Foreign Language Oscar, so he's doing something right."

"Rome in all its splendor and superficiality, artifice and significance, becomes an enormous banquet too rich to digest in one sitting."

"Splashes of overstatement aside, the ambition intoxicates."

"Look no further... if you wish to know whether, where, and in what guise the spirit of Fellini remains at work-and, better still, at play."

"A deliriously alive movie... the story of a man, a city, a country and a cinema, though not necessarily in that order."

"As always, Sorrentino has an architectural eye, his cameras panning over crumbling buildings, unclothed bodies and (most importantly) Servillo's face with enraptured awe."

"This movie looks and feels superb, it is pure couture cinema."

"Referencing without imitating Fellini, Sorrentino offers an amusing update on Italian society at the end of a cycle."

"Sumptuous and self-indulgent, Sorrentino's latest is a Fellini-like feast for the eyes."