Virzi's compellingly bleak analysis attempts to humanise the carnage of capitalism and, though prone to melodrama, will make you consider the sad fact that in some ways we all boil down to the sum of our financial worth.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 26, 2021

Human Capital plays like an icily precise neo-noir, but it's really an acidic black comedy as concerns the overriding selfish nature of humans.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 18, 2019

Human Capital stumbles on its blandly predictable, two dimensional characters and the implausible melodrama of its latter stages.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2019

Human Capital is a taut, cleverly tailored piece of filmmaking.

| Mar 7, 2019

The story isn't particularly sophisticated -- everything whips together more conveniently than a Sunday-night drama -- but the film itself is gripping.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 5, 2018

... in the end it is clear that, beyond the human capital of those involved (which ends up being translated into economic capital), the commitment to this humanity is lost. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Dec 12, 2017

Glossy and engrossing, Human Capital unfolds like a variation on one of those films that spend two hours showing how a handful of seemingly unrelated characters are connected.

| Oct 17, 2017

the film is so gripping, so mounting in its suspense that even as you struggle to keep together all its intertwining stories, you can't look away.

| Sep 2, 2017

Virz's execution of Human Capital is like a fine tightrope balancing act in which slight changes in balance or center of gravity reveal different aspects of human nature.

| Jun 20, 2017

Riveting in an insidious way, this Italian drama continues the long-standing European filmmaking tradition of excoriating the bourgeoisie.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 6, 2016

Mark Osborne brings the innocence of the story and characters created by Saint-Exupry. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 20, 2015

An accurate portrait of human greed with a wide range of emotions that go from comedy to thriller. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 20, 2015

Human Capital treads similar structural and thematic ground as Crash and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's first three films, coming away with some of the advantages of the latter films and the weaknesses of all.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 4, 2015

An elegant thriller, a portrayal of pain, vanity and social inequity. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 29, 2015

It feels like an overproduced soap opera with good acting. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 29, 2015

The film is further undone by an overwrought ending and toneless conclusion that proves too soft to energize the movie's implied though underdeveloped social critique.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 3, 2015

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi contributes an affecting performance as the rich boy's spiritually bereft mother, whose self-worth has been smothered by luxury.

| Apr 2, 2015

Italian film weaves three lives from different social strata into a complex whole

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 1, 2015

"Human Capital" manages to be deeply affecting, while also being sharply cynical.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 20, 2015

This sharp Italian drama exposes social injustice without neglecting the humanity of its characters.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 13, 2015