While Monteverde’s film highlights the main character’s incredible work (...), including its encounters with xenophobia, the biopic as a whole falls short of leaving a lasting impression on the spectator.

| Original Score: C | Jun 22, 2024

I actually rather enjoyed this... A pretty faithful biography of Cabrini.

| Mar 23, 2024

As single-minded as its protagonist, Cabrini drives home in every scene its themes of human dignity—particularly the dignity of women and marginalized groups including immigrants and the poor—and solidarity in the face of prejudice and social injustice.

| Mar 21, 2024

Cabrini doesn’t reinvent the bio/film genre, but is a solid addition to the faith-based category.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 14, 2024

Cabrini’s story is rather absorbing and the film offers a lushly mounted portrait of life in 1880s New York, when immigration was just as much of a contentious issue as it is today.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 11, 2024

At a time when movies exist in honor of the strangest oddballs everywhere, I can think of no one more worthy of a life-changing biopic. You can keep your Barbie. I’ll take Mother Cabrini.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 9, 2024

Cabrini is the beautiful reminder of the human being behind the name.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 9, 2024

Cabrini, while certainly a hagiography, is dramatically and cinematically sound and even, now and then, visually breathtaking.

| Mar 8, 2024

For all that can be questioned about the makers’ intentions, the movie’s greatest sin is how lifelessly solemn and aesthetically dull it is.

| Mar 8, 2024

Those attending Cabrini hoping for more hot-potato discourse—or another overheated story of a red-blooded American kicking some ass—will be sorely disappointed.

| Mar 8, 2024

Its visual splendor is matched by the strong moral convictions and absence of cynicism that characterized many movies of the 1940s, when Catholic heroes were all over the screen.

| Mar 7, 2024

The production values of "Cabrini" are solid, if obvious and uninspired.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 7, 2024

“Cabrini” is in no way a perfect movie, but a damn dignified one that honors the little-known efforts of these fearless women.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 7, 2024

Elevated by some beautifully understated performances - Dell’Anna is simply electric here - and a hugely compelling story, this is perhaps Angel's very best film to date.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 7, 2024

The gauzy goodness of this film is axiomatic, and its litany of sanctimonious speeches (“the world is too small for what I intend to do”) generally repels inquiry, let alone controversy.

| Mar 7, 2024

The sumptuous production values are breathtaking...Dell’Anna’s eyes are wonderfully expressive, and she makes the small woman in the severe habit a vital, moving presence.

| Original Score: B | Mar 7, 2024

A stodgy, histrionic, and impossibly dull biopic that drags on for more than 140 minutes despite being thinner than a stained glass window.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 7, 2024

For the most part, “Cabrini” raises the bar on quality faith-based entertainment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 6, 2024

The film, which feels overlong at 145 minutes, suffers both from repetition and an over-reliance on melodramatic plot devices. But it nonetheless delivers a compelling portrait of a heroine whose story is too little-known.

| Feb 29, 2024