Paolo [Sorrentino]'s films are full of beauty and decadence... In this particular instance, the decadence owes to this actual man who was actually decadent.

| Oct 4, 2019

This sometimes beguiling but more often strangely engineered movie continues, stretching its increasingly muddy soup of gleaming nastiness and gaudy power plays until even the central portrait of the man himself is more cartoonish than corrosive.

| Sep 26, 2019

For all of Sorrentino's prodigious gifts as a scenarist, "Loro" is a disturbing movie, for all the wrong reasons and, despite its self-consciously arty pretensions, a breathtakingly callow one.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 24, 2019

Loro feels like the work of a more mature artist.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 20, 2019

Loro made me feel dirty, and I can't wait to see it again.

| Sep 20, 2019

Sorrentino's stylish but overloaded satire is less sober narrative than drunken tone poem - a buzzing, throbbing attempt to simulate the experience of living in Berlusconi-world.

| Sep 19, 2019

That up-close mystery, the endless, aggressive, triumphal flaunting of one's own emptiness, seems to hold an enduring fascination for Sorrentino, and that's the strength of the film, as well as its weakness, at least as a political work.

| Sep 19, 2019

The film regards Berlusconi's sexual appetite with tender indulgence. Which is also how it treats his scheming and double-dealing.

| Sep 19, 2019

Pitched halfway between parody and exposé, it offers a fine model for the only approach that's likely to be effective: crafting a movie that goes just as shamelessly over the top as did the man himself.

| Original Score: B | Sep 18, 2019

Like most of Paolo Sorrentino's films, Loro is closer to a stylistic orgy than an existential rumination on Italy's heritage.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 17, 2019

The film at times feels like a VR trip inside Berlusconi's mind.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 21, 2019

By keeping Berlusconi in the wings, Sorrentino builds up the mystique of 'lui, lui' while also showing it to be a convenient excuse.

| Apr 19, 2019

It's tonally all over the place, and significant characters disappear without warning. Yet the force and style of the storytelling, plus Toni Servillo's bravura performance as Berlusconi, often paper over those cracks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 19, 2019

Like Berlusconi himself, Loro is bloated and overstuffed, but Sorrentino's film is a compelling mixture of the whimsical and the sleazy, the hedonistic and the sad.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2019

Toni Servillo is compelling as ever, but there's not enough bite here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 18, 2019

Despite its uneven pacing and structure, there are individual moments that astound.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2019

Hard to say what it is, beyond a sprawling mess that caters so exclusively to the male gaze it makes The Wolf of Wall Street look like a children's tea party.

| Apr 18, 2019

Loro drips with glittering artifice. What could be more Berlusconi?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2019

Sometimes whimsical, sometimes gruellingly sordid, sometimes wayward in those Fellini-esque departures and dreamlike epiphanies of which Sorrentino has made himself such a master.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2019

It's easy to get lost in the Bacchanalian orgies, but at its heart 'Loro' is a fascinating exploration of what happens to a morally vacuous man as he grows old.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 15, 2019