85
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24 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100VarietyVarietyIt's a thrilling, at times brilliant piece of staging that never forgets the emotional pull of either the tragic personal tale or the ramifications of history.
- 100Village VoiceVillage VoiceVincere, though, is the veteran director's stylistic knockout, a movie whose audacious editing fully captures the hot and heavy relationships between past and present, sex and politics, reality and, yes, cinema.
- 90The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisA sustained, alternatingly exhausting and aesthetically exhilarating howl of a film.
- 83The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayVincere starts to run dry of stunning visual gambits and become redundant in its second hour, as the madhouse sequences dominate, but Bellocchio’s central premise retains its power and poignancy throughout.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterThe director also pulls career-high performances from Mezzogiorno and Timi that are, respectively, tragic and mesmerizing.
- 80The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyBellocchio gets the opera-buffa and the carnival side of Italian Fascism, and parts of the movie are excruciatingly funny.
- 80Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfAlmost as an afterthought to the ringingly true performances--and Marco Bellocchio’s unusually approachable direction--comes a deft analysis of fascism, likened to lovesickness, insanity and a gust of orchestral strings. It’s all of that and more, not to mention a lousy matchmaker.
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoDaniele Cipri's highly stylized lensing and Carlo Crivelli's bold score add to the movie's flamboyant aura. But then, the story of a bombastic dictator deserves a bombastic telling.
- 60Boxoffice MagazineSteve RamosBoxoffice MagazineSteve RamosForty-four years after his exciting debut feature "Fists in the Pocket," Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio continues his late-career renaissance with the passionate, beautifully crafted, period melodrama Vincere.
- 60New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThere’s visual poetry here and haunted performances from Mezzogiorno and Timi -- who plays two roles, and is especially gripping as Dalser’s grown son.