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

| Mar 18, 2022

Allows us to take in the full scope of Michael Corleone's (Al Pacino) tragic journey - from optimistic military veteran to cruel crime boss to emotionally shattered old man.

| Jan 10, 2020

[...] a crushing disappointment. It's a sluggish movie with nothing to say about the moral rot of the powerful that the first two parts didn't say much better [...]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 12, 2014

The film is a slow fuse with a big bang -- one that echoes through every family whose own tragedy is an aching for things past and loved ones lost.

| Mar 28, 2011

The movie, a heady thicket of political intrigue and double crosses, is slower, talkier, and more prosaic than the first two films, and its narrative seams sometimes show. And yet it's more than the sum of its mazelike convolutions.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Dec 12, 2007

The Godfather Part III matches its predecessors in narrative intensity, epic scope, socio-political analysis, physical beauty and deep feeling for its characters and milieu.

| Dec 12, 2007

Represents a certain moral improvement over its predecessors by refusing to celebrate and condemn violence and duplicity in the same breath, or at least to the same degree.

| Dec 12, 2007

The acting is merely passable, several characters are given nothing to do, and Michael's paranoid self-pity lends the film an absurd morality: Coppola expects us to sympathise with the semblance of virtue.

| Jun 24, 2006

I think if you can take a step back from the first two movies and if you can ignore the younger Ms. Coppola, this is still a more artful and ambitious movie than the industry standard.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 2005

Fans of the first two instalments are likely to find The Godfather Part III an unworthy heir to the tradition. First-time voters, meanwhile, will surely wonder what on earth all the fuss was all about.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 15, 2004

Most film sequels are strictly optional. The Godfather Part III is inevitable, and as such it's irresistible.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2003

Anyone with memories of The Godfather and its 1974 sequel will shudder at how Coppola reduces their powerful iconography to the level of a daytime soap.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2001

It may be that Coppola was right to put off filing this last installment all these years; from the evidence here, he had nothing more to say.

| Jan 1, 2000

[An] offer director Francis Ford Coppola should have refused.

| Jan 1, 2000

It is, I suspect, not even possible to understand this film without knowing the first two, and yet, knowing them, Part III works better than it should, evokes the same sense of wasted greatness, of misdirected genius.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000