It's well acted and gorgeously and tenebrously shot.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 20, 2014

Despite the awkward narrative structure, the choppy film serves as a welcome showcase for ably understated performances from veteran Toni Servillo and rising talent Alba Rohrwacher, and a coolly burning Isabelle Huppert.

| Jun 12, 2014

If "Dormant Beauty" does not rank among Mr. Bellocchio's best movies, it nonetheless still occasionally shows him at his best.

| Jun 5, 2014

Unlike most movies that rely on 온라인카지노추천-news reports to drive the story, Dormant Beauty is complex and humane, and never shrinks to mere spectacle.

| Jun 5, 2014

Though the movie eschews facile sloganeering, few of its characters or narrative threads are able to develop beyond their function as metaphors.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 5, 2014

Swift and often compelling, it's also blessedly unbiased.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 4, 2014

[A] tough, poignant drama ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 3, 2014

Don't let this one slip through your fingers.

| Jun 3, 2014

Dormant Beauty always comes back to the difficult decisions that family members have to make for each other, contrasted with the huffiness of outsiders who try to project their own beliefs onto someone else's business.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 3, 2014

Itself the object of political wrangling, Beauty has numerous scenes of enormous power, though removing one unnecessary plot strand would allow deeper probing elsewhere.

| Jun 2, 2014

With typical intelligence and complexity, director Marco Bellocchio weaves three stories around the politically hot topic of euthanasia, turning a real-life Italian national drama into engrossing narrative for sophisticated audiences.

| Jun 2, 2014

The film puts too many elements into play, which means it ends up darting hopelessly between a series of underdeveloped storylines.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 2, 2014