One of those films you need to feel before you begin to understand. That’s always a huge gamble ... But something this unique and distinguished, as well as refreshingly short, is at least worth one viewing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 4, 2024

In essence, Italian Studies is a movie made up of bits and pieces that never quite coalesce, and perhaps that’s its entire point.

| Jun 6, 2023

An impulsive saturnine film that follows Vanessa Kirby as she billows around New York City for an unclear amount of time in an amnesiac fugue state. The non-linear timeline of the film accentuates the

| Original Score: 70/100 | Nov 18, 2022

The film’s runtime is just 81 minutes however every New York Minute feels like a hour stuck in rush hour traffic on the way to JFK.

| Nov 12, 2022

Ultimately, Italian Studies leaves the door between the real and the fictional world wide open. Its spontaneity makes the film, not the worst, but the most disappointing film of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 10, 2022

An indulgent, dreamy doodle of a film that chases its own tail for most of its 80 minutes before deciding to wrap itself up in a neat little bow and end.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 10, 2022

It seems as if Leon began with a genuinely thoughtful movie and pared it down to the barest essentials though not the essential elements to tell a story.

| Apr 1, 2022

The acting is quite good on the part of the lead actress.

| Feb 21, 2022

A woman floats through the streets of a big city trying to regain her memory. In this movie confusion reigns both on screen and in the minds of the audience.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Feb 4, 2022

Random events leave marks. Memory interprets what those marks are. It's by no means a perfect system, but it's what makes us human.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 3, 2022

Italian Studies is a misguided stream-of-consciousness drama about amnesia. Too bad the filmmakers forgot to make it an interesting movie.

| Jan 29, 2022

When you need to read the press kit to figure out what it is they intended, that's a bad sign.

| Jan 26, 2022

I don't really know what they're aiming for here... There needs to be a point to why we're telling this particular story in this particular way.

| Jan 26, 2022

It's only 81 minutes long but feels like an eternity or two.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 20, 2022

Italian Studies offers no concrete answers but offers to help us shorten the distance between our exterior and interior worlds.

| Jan 20, 2022

Its idea of time is multidimensional, as is its idea of form.

| Jan 19, 2022

Adam Leon's brief, stylish film never fully unpacks its intriguing premise, but gains feeling and texture from Kirby's performance as a writer in a dissociative fugue.

| Jan 15, 2022

For a long stretch, Italian Studies turns this trip down memory-loss lane into a low-wattage livewire, an unpredictable stroll into the unknown.

| Jan 14, 2022

Mildly auspicious if ultimately disappointing.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 14, 2022

If writer/director Adam Leon has a point to make ... it's lost amidst the movie's devotion to being intentionally aimless, meandering, and fractured.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 14, 2022