It enjoys a certain Mediterranean beauty on the visual side, but not even the dazzling presence of Monica Bellucci prevents the coming-of-age fable from collapsing down common and boring paths. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 22, 2024

Malena poses as a bounteously endowed, ripe, curvy Italian mamma, but metaphorically it's an undernourished cadaverous Kate Moss of a movie.

| Jan 25, 2018

A film about Malena herself, her travails, the deep-reaching conclusion, would have been much more interesting and original, but Tornatore is mired in cliches.

| Jan 8, 2018

Malna barely speaks a word in the film, but Belucci makes a role that is written as a symbol into a full-blooded person.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 15, 2010

Tornatore's Malena is to adolescence what his Cinema Paradiso was to childhood, a lyrical if sentimental fable about the perils of gowing up and the power of the imagination.

| Original Score: C | Dec 25, 2006

A fully-fleshed out portrait, swirled in sweetness and nostalgia.

| May 26, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

La historia trata en realidad tambin de Italia y la prdida de inocencia, de los costumbrismos y elementos regionales...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2003

With Fellini and Leoni gone, who now stands as Italy's greatest living filmmaker? ... The correct answer has to be Giuseppe Tornatore.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2002

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2002

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2002

...ravishing to look at...the lush cinematography and luxuriant musical score adding to our enjoyment. But, ultimately, the film disappoints by not being about very much.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 28, 2001

| Original Score: A- | Jul 23, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 4, 2001

Sutil recordatorio de que, en pleno inicio del siglo XXI, la imaginacin y la pureza de corazn se mantienen ms que vigentes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 11, 2001

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2001

Nonetheless, unlike his earlier and far superior "Cinema Paradiso," "Malena" often feels more repulsive than touching.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 20, 2001

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 26, 2001