While it brushes past weightier issues like environmental preservation and the future of rural communities, From The Vine is first and foremost a cinematic holiday.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2022

It's Eat Pray Love for wealthy male boomers: embarrassingly sincere and iffily patronising to its Italian characters.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 7, 2021

Not a single character seems to have a thought they don't overtly state, every plot development is telegraphed as far ahead as the movie can manage, and stressing the apparent idyll by shoehorning in yet another scenery shot happens again and again.

| Jul 9, 2021

Is a welcome reminder of Joe Pantoliano's presence on screen, with this beautifully shot travelogue of a movie affording him a rare leading man turn.

| Jun 22, 2021

Sean Cistera's film is, in its modest way, attractive enough. It doesn't aim very high, but its celebration of old traditions in a world where environmental concerns are being set aside in the name of progress is certainly welcome.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 18, 2021

For a short time, the scenic delights of the place keep you interested but after you have settled in, it's up to Pantoliano to prove he has the charm to persuade you to overlook the story's improbabilities and engage with him and it's a hard sell.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 16, 2021

Everything comes up roses when an over-it Toronto exec remakes his life in an ultra-romantic Italy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 16, 2021

Doesn't add anything to the soul-searching travelogue genre but the point of these movies is not to reinvent the wheel. Like rom coms, the most formulaic variety of mass entertainment there is, it's the journey not the individual stops along the way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 29, 2021

From the Vine is a less-infuriating-than-usual stab at a storyline that usually just reeks of entitlement and narcissism. Writing today, at the end of an appalling year, let's call that a win.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 4, 2021

Sweet, sentimental, and structured storytelling that offers no unpleasant surprises.

| Original Score: 2.5 / 5 | Dec 8, 2020

Unlike the vintage wine that's supposed to be in the movie, the film's moldy humor does not get better with age ... The only thing that comes out looking good in the movie is Italy's gorgeous landscape.

| Nov 11, 2020

This is a warm movie with a big heart, exploring enormously important issues in a way that's never remotely pushy or preachy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 16, 2020

From the Vine provides exactly what you expect and little else - light entertainment for an oppressively dark time.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 13, 2020

Some may know of Pantoliano from his "Sopranos" days; here he radiates the screen in every frame of the gorgeous Italian countryside. It's as if he was meant to play the role; it's refreshingly old-fashioned storytelling that scores high notes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 12, 2020

Curl up with a nice glass of Antinori Tignanello and enjoy.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 11, 2020

It's a fairly small-scale film, so it's not as though more was really needed, but it doesn't amount to much.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 10, 2020

From the Vine may prove pleasing and, yes, there's all that scenery, idealized to the max, as is everything else in this Italo-escapist massage of a movie.

| Oct 10, 2020

It's good natured, but "From the Vine" often seems forced and artificial.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 9, 2020

Joe Pantoliano balances charisma and charm in a welcome starring role in this innocuous comedy about starting over and rediscovering your roots.

| Oct 9, 2020

The cast is completely adequate and the movie itself, especially when it goes into flights of fantasy, is strictly average.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 8, 2020