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

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

It is ultimately so repetitious in fawning over him.

| Mar 22, 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

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

The bad news about the Ennio Morricone documentary “Ennio” is its length: 2 1/2 hours. Far too short!

| Feb 9, 2024

There’s no doubt that Tornatore could have created a more artistically self-possessed homage to his most iconic collaborator, but then again, didn’t he already do that with “Cinema Paradiso”?

| Original Score: B | Feb 8, 2024

One of the movie’s nice surprises is that Morricone turns out to be a total charmer, a low-key showman with a demure gaze that he works like a vamp and an impish smile that routinely punctuates one of his anecdotes.

| Feb 8, 2024

“Ennio” turns out to be overlong, overblown, and larded with such praises that Morricone, a modest if determined soul, would blush to hear them.

| Feb 5, 2024

Filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore’s homage to his late collaborator is detailed to the point of exhaustive, with the likes of Quentin Tarantino, Hans Zimmer and even Bruce Springsteen weighing in, but the access is priceless.

| Feb 2, 2024

Tornatore’s film is too long and the hyperbole can be overwhelming... But the film does take you deep into the mind and imagination of an astonishingly audacious music-maker.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 7, 2022

An ideal tribute.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2022

In common with Edgar Wrights recent portrait of Sparks, Tornatores film largely eschews such niceties as documentary structure in favour of enthusiastic chronology. And then Ennio worked with Pasolini; and then he worked with Dario Argento. And so on.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 26, 2022

As a tribute to the man and his legacy it’s fascinating stuff.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 25, 2022

What a dude - plus a great mosaic of cinematic and musical moments.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 22, 2022

A painstakingly detailed, fantastically entertaining, and profoundly exhausting deep dive...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2022

There's so much to enjoy here that we're far beyond the two-hour mark when a viewer starts to observe things he might be willing to do without.

| Sep 20, 2021