The storytelling is leisurely and masterful; Coppola at the very peak of his powers.

| Dec 29, 2023

The Godfather films have set home-video standards for decades, and that trend continues with Paramounts astonishing 4K restorations.

| Mar 18, 2022

It’s an epic vision of the corruption of America.

| Mar 8, 2022

Director Francis Ford Coppola furnished a fully-fashioned gangster melodrama in the first film: in this one he stretches his talent to encompass a genuine American tragedy.

| Mar 8, 2022

What is so good about the film is the sympathetic way that Coppola has treated such unsympathetic characters, machismo-minded males still worshiping at the god of tribal virility.

| Mar 8, 2022

All the performances are fine, especially Lee Strasberg as a despicable Meyer Lansky hood; Diane Keaton, as Michael's despairing wife; Robert Duvall, as his lawyer; and Robert De Niro, as Vito Adolini, nee Don Corleone.

| Apr 6, 2021

Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is an even richer, more spellbinding work than its wholly successful predecessor.

| Apr 6, 2021

The new sequel to The Godfather, titled The Godfather, Part II, permits us a second look inside that room, inside that world. At times the vision is as beautiful, as harrowing, and as exciting as the original.

| Apr 6, 2021

The Godfather, Part II really has no reason for its lavish existence other than the greediness of its makers. And that is the kind of avarice that a godfather appreciates.

| Apr 6, 2021

The Godfather Part II is quite fascinating in its study of a migrant community and especially of power within that community. A mixture of horror, piety and wit, it is compulsive viewing (even if you feel like closing your eyes in some scenes).

| Apr 6, 2021

Somehow this beautifully made, intermittently exciting film never pulls us once and for all into its own world. But its ambition, vision and artistic courage make it more marvelous than anything we might have expected from that ill-fated form, the sequel.

| Apr 6, 2021

Director Francis Ford Coppola has fashioned a film of awesome power and overpowering performances.

| Apr 6, 2021

The Godfather -- Part II is a very good motion picture. It is sporadically violent on the outside, constantly violent on the inside. It benefits from fine acting and expert direction, and it speaks with power.

| Apr 6, 2021

The film is a very considerable achievement it is an epic about the underbelly of America that says far more than The Great Gatsby, for instance, ever did.

| Apr 6, 2021

The Godfather now becomes the Gone With The Wind of gangster films and more, in terms of sheer length; but in quality it remains no more than a superior gangland epic.

| Apr 6, 2021

A masterful sequel, replete with action, showmanship, humor and technical craftsmanship.

| Apr 6, 2021

Godfather II is quieter, less propulsive, less furiously violent than Godfather I and it demonstrably lacks the hypnotic patriarchal figure of Brando as Don Corleone... The new film settles for its own strengths, and they are considerable.

| Apr 5, 2021

The magisterial pace of the sequel begins to flag about halfway through... But the performances establish continuities of their own, and the acting throughout sustains a much higher level of assurance.

| Feb 5, 2020

In sheer physical terms, however, Godfather Part II displays even more spectacular panache than its predecessor.

| Feb 4, 2020

Few movie sequels are as good as the films they follow and even fewer have about them the air of necessity. Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II is among the rare exceptions.

| Feb 4, 2020