Fellini at his laziest...

| Original Score: D- | Feb 7, 2023

Equally classic in an entirely different way...

| May 4, 2022

It must be said that, though Fellini Satyricon is unarguably astounding in its visual depiction and its audacious narrative form, I find it personally a bit impenetrable. That said, it could be argued that that is indeed the point.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2020

For the adventurous, open-minded moviegoer observing a Fellini film at some point in life is nearly a must.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Sep 21, 2020

Unfortunately, the film is only a decoration, a design, so reliant on visual style that the result is very nearly a parody of the fluid camera and cinematic virtuosity of [Fellini's] earlier films.

| Jan 14, 2020

Satyricon achieves a curious dual effect. It walks all over the audience with its gross, greasy detail, and at the same time it is deliberately uninvolved and uninvolving.

| Jul 9, 2018

Stunning camerawork in deliberately garish colour from Giuseppe Rotunna, incomparable art direction, and some riveting music from Nini Rota aid Fellini in his principal task, which is simply to astonish and to widen the imagination.

| Mar 20, 2018

Satyricon is an expressionist film. Less in the sense of historical expressionism than in that of a representation where subjectivity pushed to the borders of the unconscious signally prevails over objectivity.

| Mar 14, 2018

Apart from all the debatable elements of [Federico Felliní's] style, Satiricón is a totally recommendable movie. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 7, 2018

There's a numbness to the entire cumulative experience. That's where its true effect lies, and Fellini Satyricon is mostly a reminder of how wide open and full of possibility this particular time in cinema was.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 12, 2015

It's, by design, an overwhelming film, and sometimes an exhausting one, but the melancholy and wariness keep it grounded.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2015

True, the various strands are never bound together, but with material this sumptuous it really doesn't matter.

| Sep 13, 2008

Federico Fellini presents an incredible fresco-like vision of Rome's social structure 2,000 years ago in which survival and pleasure were man's sole motivating forces.

| Sep 13, 2008

A shallow, hypocritical film, without a glimmer of genuine creativity.

| Sep 13, 2008

The odd thing is that the excess seems visual and mythical rather than really sexual.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 29, 2006

Fellini's characteristic delirium is in fact anchored in a precise, psychological schema: under the matrix of bisexuality, he explores the complexes of castration, impotence, paranoia and libidinal release.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 26, 2005

Those who don't weaken and bolt for the door experience a one-of-a-kind visual adventure they are unlikely to forget.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2005

Fellini received a well deserved Oscar nomination for this bizarre, wildly flamboyant but plotless spectacle, inspired by the firt century author Petronius, flaunting glorious production values.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 4, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 26, 2005