The film offers apt comparisons to our current politics: the uncompromising elements of the environmental and animal rights movements on the left, and the anti-immigration vigilantes of the right.

| May 14, 2020

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

The strength of Good Morning, Night is not in winking meta-drama but in a clear-eyed, restorative realism that's occasionally broken by quiet flights of fancy.

| Jan 6, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 6, 2005

Despite good intentions, Good Morning, Night simply confirms what most viewers want to believe about themselves.

| Nov 14, 2005

A thoughtful and ultimately chilling take on a tragedy that still has the power to disturb and divide.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 11, 2005

The race between her deep-set ideology and burgeoning conscience is a compelling one, but there are too many shortcuts -- from fevered dreams to convenient coincidences -- along the way.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 11, 2005

A stunning achievement.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 11, 2005

Director Marco Bellocchio takes a pragmatic and complex position

| Original Score: '3/5' | Nov 11, 2005

Sober yet filled with fancy. There's a wistful aspect to the movie.

Full Review | Nov 8, 2005

Part reality, part fantasy and all compassion. It is a strangely moving experience for the historically aware filmgoer.

| Nov 2, 2005

Buongiorno, notte fails even as a lyrical meditation on the kidnapping because the characters do not engage the audience at any point.

| Feb 16, 2005

Bellocchio, a former Communist party activist, keenly appreciates the way in which the just causes of the past have been replaced by an uncertainty of action and purpose.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2004

Mature and profoundly affecting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 22, 2003

[P]otentially fascinating, but doesn't tap into the humanity of its subjects.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 17, 2003

Despite a handful of spirited performances, Bellocchio is unable to move his tale beyond a simple class-war badgering.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 12, 2003

Good Morning, Night presents a chilling look at the righteous indignation of zealots while at the same time revealing the firepower of empathy and its close relative compassion.

| Oct 10, 2003

Ms. Sansa is an actress of exquisite sensitivity.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 9, 2003

The writer-director's inquiry into this tragedy makes for a moving and intelligent film, but the dark story never feels fully realized.

Full Review | Oct 8, 2003

Good Morning, Night is as tired and inconsequential as week-old pasta.

| Oct 8, 2003