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  Review by izzy ★★★★★ 6

  i laughed for an hour. then cried for the other hour. it’s okay. i’m alive.

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  Review by Ella Kemp ★★★★

  That Timothée Chalamet x Fionn Whitehead motherfucker

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  Review by Holli ★★½ 3

  you all are gonna lose your minds over italian timothee chalamet

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  Review by Catus ★★★ 6

  Why are italian movies so… italian

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★

  It would be accurate to say that Paolo Sorrentino’s work explores the relationship between the sacred and the profane, but such tepid wording fails to capture the orgiastic maximalism of “The Great Beauty,” speak to the sexed up sacrilege of “The New Pope,” or summon the I didn’t even see it because a Sorrentino movie about Silvio Berlusconi just sounded way too exhausting-ness of “Loro.” Calling “Il Divo” a film about a crooked politician would be like calling “8 ½” a film about writer’s block: Right enough, and yet oh so wrong. In Sorrentino’s world, the sacred and the profane don’t just rub together or intertwine so much as they dry hump each other — with eternal vigor — until…

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★★ 7

  there's some pretty remarkable filmmaking on display here i am in awe

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  Review by Hunter ᴴᴰ ★★ 1

  *ahem* Not naming any names, but I think someone has a few unresolved issues with women and wanting to fuck their aunt.

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  Review by nick ★★★★½ 1

  In The Hand of God, Paolo Sorrentino channels his personal pain and orchestrates one of the most mournful, spontaneous, and vibrant cinema experiences of the year. It's always inspiring to see renowned directors in their most exposed, candid form, and The Hand of God is for sure the best and most emotional hard-hitter such genre gets to offer.

  Largely based on Sorrentino's own life experiences growing up as a teenager in Naples, The Hand of God presents both sides of the coin, mostly the tragedy that overturns Sorrentino's quite peaceful, normal adolescent years. Continuing his trademark of everyday humor and colorful character studies, Sorrentino presents the "before" part of the tale with enough style, gags, and a motley crew that…

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  Review by Michael Rhoa ★★½ 12

  Notice when they ask the young Paolo Sorrentino what he wants to be, he says “a director.” Not a writer, a director. This is a brilliant bit of foreshadowing to his real life where he is an incredible director who can’t write for shit.

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  Review by critico y citrico ★★★½

  Existe en la pelicula la idea de que Nápoles es una ciudad que no debe abandonarse, tanto en sentido literal como metafórico. Su condimento mágico es tan atractivo que es capaz de generar la presencia de Maradona, Fellini, San Gennaro, Capuano o un jeque árabe. Sin embargo, la sola mención de Maradona, quien permanecerá fuera de campo casi toda la película, es suficiente para comprender cómo su aparición es significativa para toda un pueblo - no sólo para su protagonista - y esto funciona aún si uno no supiera quién fue él en la vida real. En ese aspecto, queda a mano la famosa comparación entre Maradona y Dios, siendo en la película un personaje invisible que opera sobre el…

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  Review by reibureibu ★★★★ 4

  Completely immerses the viewer in the Sorrentino-cipher's family dynamics that for the first half of the movie it feels like nothing is happening. This might prove to be a point of contention for some as it did myself at first, but after a while I found myself entranced by these vignettes, wondering what non-event will happen next that will nonetheless make me laugh or cheer or cry along with these abrasive, annoying, obscene people that I don't think I'd ever want to know in real life yet I have a feeling I already have. The opulent manner in which this is filmed seems odd at first, contrasting heavily with the vulgar characters which occupy such lushly-filmed spaces, but in doing…

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  Review by Luca Schisano ★★★★★

  La voglia di rivederlo subito dopo per vedere se questa volta ci riesci a piangere, come Fabietto. Esci dal cinema totalmente svuotato, in preda al panico perchè capisci che in quel personaggio c'era un po' anche di te, di noi, ma resti in silenzio. Solitamente gli introversi nei film sono dei paraculi, in questo caso capisci da subito che non è così: stai guardando la storia di Sorrentino e per tutta la durata del film ti sembra che la sua vita ti stia passando accanto. È malinconico ma non ti abbatte, ti fa capire che per fare certe cose ci vuole la perseveranza, o meglio... c vonn e pall. Grazie Paolo per gli omaggi a Napoli, a Diego, al cinema, a Fellini. Grazie per averci raccontato la tua storia e per avermi fatto prendere un po' più di coscienza sulla mia. Mo so che voglio fare da grande.