A documentary full of musical clips that prove that Ennio Morricone was the greatest composer for film of all time!

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 9, 2025

I didn’t mind the running time, because Morricone deserves it, and it’s fantastic to hear the music itself.

| Jan 3, 2025

Film buffs should not miss director Giuseppe Tornatore's documentary tribute to one of the big screen's greatest composers. This is "Cinema Paradiso," indeed.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 5, 2024

Rich with archival footage and career-spanning interviews, the film is an insightful look at what distinguishes Oates...

| Jul 4, 2024

“Ennio” captures Morricone’s wit, his humility, his striving for perfection. Most importantly, though, it captures his music, in the context of some spectacular movies, and allows us to consider a lifetime of music in one engrossing sitting.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 20, 2024

What’s most impactful about “Ennio” is the opportunity to see Morricone as a man and a music lover.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 19, 2024

One can just close their eyes and get engulfed in the music of an evolutionary composer but hopefully it will open one’s as well to the art of film composition.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 1, 2024

Diving into the history of these scores touches the heart of anyone who has been moved by his songs. In the end, it’s reassuring to learn how much heart emanated from the composer.

| Mar 30, 2024

It’s not a short film, at roughly two and a half hours. It’s also so rich in its detail, and sheer musical variety, you’re grateful for the excess.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 28, 2024

This is one of the great documentaries about movies, about music and about artistic creation in general, a loving tribute to an innate musical genius who composed over 500 movie scores.

| Original Score: A | Mar 26, 2024

It is ultimately so repetitious in fawning over him.

| Mar 22, 2024

As a film, it felt more like a "masterclass" than a documentary... I don't know that someone who doesn't know Morricone would find [this] interesting.

| Mar 22, 2024

This illuminating, elucidative, and enthralling documentary delves into the life and work of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific composer of the 20th Century.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 15, 2024

The sometimes abrupt, dismissive way he discusses some professional interludes reveal a personality that demanded its own terms—and got them. (Rather than bending to directors’ wills, he seems to have frequently bent them to his will.)

| Mar 4, 2024

Morricone’s presence in the documentary is the key element, because by watching him, we understand the sensitive qualities that made him so good at interpreting and augmenting the work of others.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 29, 2024

Simply by inviting the audience to bask in Morricone’s staid, meticulous, at times mischievously self-serious personality, the movie allows us to revel in the grand paradox of who he was.

| Feb 29, 2024

A masterpiece fit for a maestro.

| Feb 28, 2024

While it seems like overkill to give us the equivalent of a full cinematic symphony, this affectionate documentary portrait is both insightful and engaging.

| Feb 17, 2024

As a work of non-fiction cinema, the inexcusably long Ennio is dutiful and comprehensive — but plays out like an extended Wikipedia entry.

| Feb 14, 2024

The subject is one of the most innovative and influential composers of all time but the documentary that tells his story is very conventional, with chronological archival footage and talking head interviews given by the composer and his co-workers

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 12, 2024