This is a vibrant if familiar art-house drama, with rough-and-tumble camerawork, highly physical performances, and fly-on-the-wall observations that recall the films of Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.

| Apr 7, 2020

Tim Curtin's handheld camerawork and Dan Romer's score are restless and energetic. Pio Amato, who is in almost every frame, makes for a charismatic lead. He is likable enough for the viewer to overlook his low-level lawlessness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 27, 2018

A fascinating and considered study of outsider tensions, though a third-act turn that forces Pio to pick a side hammers the point home a little too hard.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2018

Carpignano doesn't judge his characters. He just lays bare what makes them tick.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 15, 2018

The textures and attention to detail enrich the familiar story beats.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 15, 2018

The wildly impressive amateur cast and novice Italian-American director Jonas Carpignano...have done their jobs and created an impossibly gripping fiction.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 15, 2018

So peppy and vivid - so dynamic-and-demotic - that it could have been directed by a young Martin Scorsese.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2018

What a rush of storytelling energy and style.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2018

Told with love and affection for those whose lives he follows, Carpignano has created a brilliant, bright shining star of a film. One of this year's best.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 11, 2018

Italian neorealism is alive and well in the hands of writer-director Jonas Carpignano-a fairly textbook version of neorealism, at that.

| Mar 2, 2018

Writer-director Jonas Carpignano displays a fine feeling for the simple joys and blunt sorrows of life at the margins, and a great regard for his compelling young star.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2018

The director avoids turning this into some form of misery tourism, which would be a real risk in less adept hands: yet the story is told with such a uniform tone that it's hard to remain emotionally engaged.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2018

Carpignano is far less interested in the epic mechanics of how the flat screen 온라인카지노추천 falls off the truck, and far more on the personal daily details of the people inhabiting this world.

| Feb 2, 2018

It's a neo-realist study of a kid with special gifts for leadership, daring and friendship. And for stealing everything in sight.

| Feb 1, 2018

Through Tim Curtin's kinetic handheld camerawork, Carpignano immerses the viewer in Pio's experience.

| Feb 1, 2018

Viewers interested in a rarely-documented side of life will get caught up in this frank portrayal of a boy who's not sure how to be a man.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 26, 2018

While A Ciambra is not a happy story, its vigor and authenticity deliver a sort of joy.

| Jan 25, 2018

The result is busy, murky, and remote.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 24, 2018

The film is most engrossing in its opening act, when its camera is freed from the demands of plot, channeling Pio's peripatetic spirit.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 23, 2018

In its mood and methods, "A Ciambra" pays homage to the work of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the living masters of European realist cinema.

| Jan 18, 2018