A pilgrimage with Pope Francis to visit the people and express his concerns for the world.

| Dec 24, 2023

Even a modestly flawed documentary about a major world leader is inevitably fascinating, simply due to the very nature of its subject matter.

| Aug 14, 2023

It's a fascinating look at Pope Francis, and the people who revere him, through many years of his travels.

| Original Score: 3 stars | May 15, 2023

The documentary consists almost entirely of archival news footage. Therefore, nothing new is revealed. It's an up-close but not very personal compilation of Pope Francis' international tour visits and some of his inspirational speeches.

| Apr 18, 2023

Gianfranco Rosi has made a film about a Pope dealing with a complex and difficult world. He has not white-washed Francis’ problems at all. In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis could have been a throwaway piece. It’s not.

| Apr 7, 2023

In Viaggio is a kind of Rorschach test, a canvas for our own biases, hang-ups and personal histories. If the film has any meaning, it is through the context of crowds and differing approaches to national security.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 6, 2023

To make a film about a singular individual whose pronouncements yield worldwide reverberations is challenging; to render it definite, delusional. But In Viaggio is instead rather modest... and graceful.

| Apr 3, 2023

This is not “an inside look,” or even a broad overview of this particular papacy. It is enlightening, though, to see Pope Francis in so many different contexts.

| Apr 1, 2023

For most of its 82-minute run-time, it’s as if the film is just jumping between news clips of speeches, accompanied by the silence of someone assembling a holy YouTube playlist.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 31, 2023

Rosi has done us all a favor by compiling such [impressive footage] that not only reminds us of what it means to be a disciple of Christ and show love for our brothers and sisters, especially the suffering, but also shows us the heart of... Pope Francis.

| Mar 30, 2023

Rosi allows the Pope to speak for himself without interruption or commentary from historians or theologians, offering modern viewers a unique opportunity to experience his words and doctrines as they have existed over the years.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 30, 2023

A repetitious feel begins to take over. For some viewers, quietude may yield to boredom.

| Mar 30, 2023

A film in which Pope Francis does what you expect a pope to do— travels a lot, condemns war, promotes inter-faith dialogue, cheers up prisoners, memorializes, apologizes, and does an awesome amount of waving to crowds.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 30, 2023

In Viaggio captures the complexity of Pope Francis's humanity yet also the sacredness of this most holy journey.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Mar 29, 2023

The film unfolds at an excessive remove from its subject matter, and it becomes less an incisive thesis about the pope than an occasion for Gianfranco Rosi to flex his stylistic muscles.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 24, 2023

A polite but conflicted portrait of a man whose gestures of empathy and even contrition toward his legions of followers are undercut by his absurd remove from their reality — a world he tours extensively, but never inhabits.

| Nov 16, 2022

A thoughtful film which considers the role of the head of a major church in the modern world.

| Nov 12, 2022

Far from a puff piece disguised as an unbiased account. The power dynamics at play are ever-present, the same interactions that bring the Pope closer to his subjects denouncing the hypocrisy of sanctifying a man who preaches for equality.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 9, 2022

It doesn’t offer easy answers, and it certainly doesn’t suggest that the Catholic Church has them either -- but it’s a moving reflection on the world’s trials, and a tribute to those who seek to change them.

| Sep 7, 2022

[An] absorbing documentary...

| Sep 5, 2022