There are moments of movie magic, such as Nastassja Kinski’s tightrope walk and Garr’s dance with Raul Julia, but they are brief flashes in the midst of flamboyant spectacle and dull characterization.

| Jan 11, 2025

<i>One From The Heart</i> straps itself to a neon rocketship of elemental romance rather than taking a boat upriver to documentary-style madness. [It and <i>Apocalypse Now</i>] make a pretty pair, and <I>Heart</i> has things you don’t see in the jungle,

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 2, 2024

The original cut is as flawed as it is gorgeous. The Reprise edit is utterly clueless — both introducing continuity errors and clipping out context that really worked about the original version's blue-valentine vibes.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 24, 2024

Unfortunately, this wasn’t one of those films unfairly panned more for its budget than its actual content (see: Ishtar, Waterworld, etc.) -- this one truly deserved every rotten review that came its way.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 27, 2024

Every scene represents Francis Ford Coppola taking a creative risk.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 22, 2024

There’s plenty to enjoy here, especially the sparkling emotional openness of Garr, who is a terrific natural dancer and seems always to be dancing, even when she isn’t.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2024

A movie that takes a drastic and original approach to the very notion of character, to the essence of subjectivity in cinema.

| Jan 19, 2024

…a film-out-of-time, for sure, but it’s a wonderful wallow in fading passion and impending break-ups…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 30, 2023

It’s the sheer commitment to artificiality that makes One from the Heart an important inspiration for the modern musical, even while it stares backward.

| Original Score: B | Sep 1, 2023

This story being negligible, what we're asked to respond to is Coppola's confectionary artistry. The movie is very pretty and sometimes eerily charming, but the effects don't have any emotional meaning in terms of characters.

| Mar 8, 2023

Unfortunately, in all his zeal and desire to make a new kind of picture, one of the finest filmmakers of our day neglected to come up with an interesting story about interesting people.

| Aug 10, 2022

And yet, despite the drabness and confusion of its premise, One from the Heart is impossible to look away from.

| Apr 13, 2021

It's attractive and fascinating but at the same time full of false notes, erroneous choices, and corniness. But it couldn't be another way in a film that has as its theme or obsession to declare its love to cinema. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 7, 2020

Coppola surrounds his lovelorn characters in a dizzying virtuoso display, but he knows what all this cinematic excitement adds up to: escape.

| Aug 31, 2018

Perhaps next time Coppola can open his heart without losing his head.

| Mar 13, 2015

A great big beautiful bore, ornately directed by Francis Coppola, with little charm and less meaning.

| Mar 13, 2015

Razzle-dazzle gimmickry and photographic techniques dwarf the trivial story.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 11, 2007

A hybrid musical romantic fantasy, lavishing giddy heights of visual imagination and technical brilliance onto a wafer-thin story of true love turned sour, then sweet.

| Dec 11, 2007

A flawed film, to be sure, but one certainly ripe for reexamination some 20 years on.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 21, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 11, 2007