As Felice reacquaints himself with old haunts, Mario Martone’s film captures their atmosphere and the feelings they inspire in the long-absent native.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 2, 2023

Weaving in flashbacks to the protagonists’ teen years in the 1970s, Martone’s film hovers between crime thriller and character drama—both its hero and the viewer aren’t sure just which way it’s ultimately gonna fall until the final scene.

| Feb 27, 2023

Though the film settles into familiar gangland tropes, it’s wonderfully alive with the sound and sensations of the modern city -- you can almost smell the traffic fumes, ripe garbage, incense and surf.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2023

You can see the end coming a mile off, but the film’s sensuous quality and Favino’s terrific performance rescue it from predictability.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 22, 2023

Filmmaker Mario Martone is particularly adept at depicting the community in an almost documentary style, layered with riveting performances from a fine cast.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 22, 2023

Layering the gangster drama on top of that might have been a distracting afterthought, but the filmmaker maintains the balance with skill and grace.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 22, 2023

[A] meandering but richly detailed drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2023

It’s a sad, melancholic movie, superbly orchestrated and perfectly played. Won’t do much for the reputation of Naples though.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 17, 2023

Absorbing after you’ve made it through the first 20 minutes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2023

If yielding to nostalgia often makes people recall a more affectionate and wistful version of what actually was, this stirring, evocative film likely will leave viewers haunted by what might have been.

| Jan 27, 2023

Martone’s depiction of crime is at once expressive and economic, a world of danger boiled down to pregnant pauses and minute gestures.

| Jan 26, 2023

Well-acted and initially intriguing, but ultimately undercooked, anemic and low on suspense.

| Jan 26, 2023

Nostalgia balances the somber with the hopeful (although the ending is sadly predictable). There’s a homoerotic charge to the Felice/Oreste relationship that Martone is afraid of exploring.

| Original Score: B | Dec 27, 2022

A punishing story about the passage of time with immense depth and a lingering sensation of solitude that freezes the soul that we haven't seen since Leone's Once Upon a Time in America...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 9, 2022

The film never reaches the required dramatic intensity no matter how much its characters... try hard to convince us otherwise. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 5, 2022

The main virtue of “Nostalgia” is Favino's excellent performance that, with subtlety and warmth, lands an elegant warning about the dangers of getting lost in the past. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Dec 3, 2022

The film ends on a slightly too simplistic, but it cannot take away from its overall highly sensitive and formally rigorous exploration of nostalgia and of the other, different relationships people can afford to have with their past.

| Original Score: A | May 28, 2022

Mario Martone’s beautifully shot and superbly composed film teeters on the edge of something special. And if it doesn’t quite achieve that, settling in the end for something more generically crime-oriented, it’s still very good.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 26, 2022

Martone tells this predictable story with a steady hand, supported above all by [Pierfrancesco] Favino's compassionate performance. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 25, 2022

The deep dive into this specific urban milieu is gratifying; you can practically inhale the smells of the open markets, the garbage, the run-down buildings, the motorbike exhaust and, once and a while, the purer air of the churches.

| May 25, 2022