Nanni Moretti has made a career's worth of film grounded in humor, but here he has turned serious.

| Feb 28, 2020

With tender skill, Moretti illuminates Samuel Beckett's familiar summation "I can't go on-I'll go on."

| Oct 5, 2019

Like a good shrink, Moretti watches with an unflinching but compassionate eye.

| Mar 7, 2018

Moretti's comedies and sarires are more interesting than this family melodrama about loss and grief, though he should be commended for making a touching and sensitive film that never descends into cloying bathos.

| Original Score: B | Mar 9, 2012

With tender skill, [director] Moretti illuminates Samuel Beckett's familiar summation 'I can't go on--I'll go on.'

| Feb 9, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

A work of powerful understatement, artfully crafted and subtly acted.

Full Review | Dec 1, 2003

We're all guilty of worrying about things that are completely unimportant; this film is a wonderful reminder that we shouldn't.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 18, 2003

A thoughtful and haunting study of the ways a family copes with the unthinkable.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

The Son's Room is a sob story that is too pat for my taste.

| Original Score: C | Oct 11, 2002

proves once again that some of the best films do not come from America.

| Original Score: A | Oct 11, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 11, 2002

Nothing in The Son's Room is conventionally sentimental or reassuring.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 20, 2002

The Son's Room refers to every room this family will inhabit for a long time -- he's an unseen, ubiquitous presence -- but they may learn to lead ordinary, even joyful lives again.

| Jun 14, 2002

I certainly found its depiction of a family affected by grief far more believable and effective than the strident dish-breaking, breast-beating of In the Bedroom.

| Jun 5, 2002

Moretti plays Giovanni, a psychiatrist who predictably finds it difficult to sustain interest in his profession after the family tragedy. Too predictably, in fact.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 30, 2002

Ranks with such films as In the Bedroom, Ordinary People, and Terms of Endearment in the sensitivity with which it observes the effect a child's death on the remaining members of the family.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 19, 2002

This is not an easy film. But it could be, by its art and heart, a necessary one.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | May 16, 2002

Chances are, if you were impressed by In the Bedroom, you'll be even more taken by Moretti's wrenching little film.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 10, 2002