Rosi has demonstrated once again that he has one of the best eyes among documentarians for capturing indelible and expressive imagery, many of which in "Notturno," despite its flaws, you will likely remember long after you see it.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 14, 2022

The devastation of war will remain forever. 'Notturno' puts a human face to that.

| Sep 13, 2021

The echoes of war reverberate throughout Notturno, a film of unnerving quietude that, as per its title, unfolds in something like a perpetual gloaming.

| Jun 5, 2021

From this narrative strategy emerges not a routine rhetoric of denunciation... [but something] that invites the viewer to find the internal logic, the common thread. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 29, 2021

Award-winning director and cinematographer Gianfranco Rosi observes ordinary people going about their daily lives in the aftermath of war, or with war still going on around them or in the distance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 19, 2021

Ultimately it's an ambitious view of war and places we don't often see; where seemingly nothing is happening and yet so much is swirling beneath the surface - or just out of frame.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 9, 2021

Rosi's method of patient observation allows him to make poetic connections across borders...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 7, 2021

Nobody with a sense for contemplative cinema will be left unsatisfied by Notturno.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 6, 2021

It's about the steps towards healing, challenging Western viewers to allow images of beauty and normalcy to play a part in that journey.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2021

It's an intensely considered curation of scenes: glimpses, perhaps, into a collective mind or soul.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2021

You may feel unease at the perfect tableaux of grief-broken mothers in the abandoned cells of their dead sons. Fortunately Rosi is not without self-awareness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2021

Rosi has stripped his film of all documentary conventions. There are no voice-overs, no talking heads or experts. The result leaves space for the viewer's own emotional reaction to the lives of the survivors.

| Original Score: A-plus | Mar 1, 2021

Beautifully shot, deeply moving photo journalism and a potent movie about living in a region ravaged by war and terrorism.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 12, 2021

Notturno builds some empathy, but only of a vague, fleeting variety. That might be enough for winning cinematic awards and pleasing the festival circuit. But...

| Feb 12, 2021

An egrossing experience that bears witness as few other works have done to the most innocent victims of war.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 2, 2021

Notturno is not the type of movie that has mass appeal because of the often-disturbing subject matter and because it's not a typical war documentary ... Notturno conveys ... the resilience of the people in these war-torn areas.

| Feb 2, 2021

This impressionistic nonfiction survey shot over three years' course captures life amongst those fleeing civil wars, ISIS, foreign invasions and more, in the borderlands between Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Kurdistan.

| Feb 2, 2021

Shot over three years in Syria, Kurdistan, Iraq and Lebanon, this masterful documentary by the gifted Gianfranco Rosi immediately reminds us of the intensely personal stories behind headlines about war.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 29, 2021

The overall effect is like picking up a copy of National Geographic, turning to a long and ambitious photo essay, and not reading the captions. It also shows the limits of what Rosi can achieve.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 29, 2021

While Notturno shares many moments of profound fragility and deep beauty, it also paints an incomplete portrait.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 29, 2021