The film's got more than a hint of Fellini in it; a carnivalesque rogues galleria of faces...

| May 13, 2024

The film’s riches come from Rohrwacher’s seemingly inexhaustible wealth of ideas...

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 12, 2024

It stirs up a fierce protectiveness in the viewer. Treasure this now, hold it, turn it, and examine it from all sides, or it may slip beyond your grasp.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 10, 2024

Enigmatic, absorbing and so much more alive than any pottery behind glass in a museum, this is an exquisitely crafted, grown-up Indiana Jones steeped in its own distinctive magic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2024

If you’re in the mood for something original and woozy and riotous and wonderfully special, you will be able to fill your boots.

| May 9, 2024

Yet what the film leaves us with is anything but frivolous. Instead, it asks complex questions about performance and the past — and reminds us that we never know what’s coming next. Quite a feat for a movie so bound up with the dead. 

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2024

Not just great, but expansive: it shows new ways a movie can be.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 9, 2024

La Chimera is often like this: meandering and laden with whimsy, but charming enough to be forgiven.

| May 8, 2024

Rohrwacher uses magical realism to craft a film that’s just as playful as it is heartbreaking.

| Apr 26, 2024

With La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher blends romance with tragedy and comedy with drama, creating a singular work of genre-defying magical realism.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 19, 2024

Rohrwacher’s story nestles up to both ache and beauty and is as much about what’s been lost as what’s been found. It’s as transportative as a poetic work of Italian literature.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 17, 2024

Ultimately, the problem dramatised here is the same one faced by any modern artist: how do you retain a meaningful link to your predecessors while shaping something new? Rohrwacher’s answer is the film itself.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 11, 2024

There’s a precision to Josh O'Connor's balance of Arthur’s heavy moroseness with a spritely mischief. It’s a remarkable, complete performance and in Alice Rohrwacher, O’Connor has found the perfect directing partner.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 9, 2024

I like ambiguous films — and I do have an is-that-what-it’s-about? theory on this one, centered on our souls, but overall it doesn’t quite work for me.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 5, 2024

O’Connor is a first-class Jean-Paul Belmondo-like brooder, until he something trips him up and he beams like a little boy.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 4, 2024

O’Connor’s Arthur, the drifting soul at the center of this story, is our only true guide.

| Apr 3, 2024

Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera is dreamy and fantastical.

| Apr 3, 2024

One of the pleasures of Rohrwacher's filmmaking is the way she subtly blurs our sense of time. La Chimera is set in the 1980s, but it could be taking place 20 years earlier, or 20 years later.

| Apr 2, 2024

Given the way O’Connor lends this lost soul such a downbeat charisma and genuine sense of pain, you’re just thankful that we’re getting a performer of such immense talent doing justice to this tomb raider right now.

| Apr 1, 2024

Mournful yet exuberant, “La Chimera” is a towering work of art presented with the unassuming invitation of a warming summer morning.

| Apr 1, 2024