[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

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

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

The film... is far from perfect, but it does benefit from “The Traitor” star Pierfrancesco Favino’s terrific lead performance as a man who learns the hard way that there’s no going home again.

| May 25, 2022

A siren song to the past that confronts us with a violent, unromantic present, paved under with the same old, blood-washed cobblestones.

| May 25, 2022

With a formidable cast, assured direction and skillful camerawork, Nostalgia proves to be a surprisingly absorbing film, one that could find audiences outside of Italy.

| May 24, 2022