A patient, subtle yet compelling film with a strong scent of humor and faint hint of bitterness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2019

Usando o vinho como uma metfora para a perda da individualidade no mundo moderno, Nossiter cria um filme fascinante que traz uma galeria de personagens interessantes em um relevante confronto em torno de suas vises de mundo diametralmente opostas.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 25, 2009

Overly long and literally unfocused documentary about the wine industry.

| Feb 22, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Brilliant critique of "Napa-ization" of the wine industry.

| Mar 25, 2006

[I]nteresting, and sometimes funny, but terribly edited and way too long.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 7, 2006

At over two hours, this gets tedious... and no amount of 'micro-oxygenating' is going to make it better. I like my wine and my documentaries with a little less pretension.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 9, 2006

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Engaging doco that touches on fraudulent practices, politics, personalities and poisonous relations in a well paced affair that covers much ground

| Sep 9, 2005

This look at globalization through ros-tinted glasses is a poignant, whimsical magnum opus. . . . a vital, sobering nightcap to Gleaners and I and Sideways.

Full Review | Aug 18, 2005

Mondovino is not a movie that swirls some wine around in a glass and admires the color and praises the bouquet and speaks of the wine's 'complexity' and uses the whole experience as some kind of rarefied metaphor for middle-aged angst.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 9, 2005

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 27, 2005

the repetitious, belaboring 165 minutes make you want to scream, "Put a cork in it!"

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 21, 2005

The movie runs an exhausting 131 minutes and reveals nothing that couldn't better be expressed with a 10-page story in Vanity Fair.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 8, 2005

At the core of this film is a great story and plenty of wine lessons worth learning -- even for heathen palates.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 7, 2005

Nossiter makes the evolving wine business into a pointed metaphor for the entire globalized economy, and the opportunities and hazards that come with it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 6, 2005

At more than two hours, both Nossiter and the film go on too long, like a drunken party guest who doesn't know when to leave.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 25, 2005

Mondovino is rich and deep, with flavors and textures that reveal themselves from start to finish. Like the wines it celebrates, this is a movie to be savored.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 24, 2005

It's so complex that it's hard to figure out exactly what he's trying to say, but it goes down pretty well.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 24, 2005

Only a true wine connoisseur will be able to get all it has to offer; but as a microcosm of the larger dangers of globalization it may appeal to a wider audience.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 17, 2005