The sins and injustices of the outside world find terrible expression in St Pio of Pietrelcina’s body and imperfect expression in Ferrara’s 22nd feature.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 31, 2024

Any authenticity is skewered by the decision to shoot in Italian-accented English, meaning that much of the dialogue sounds as hammy as a leg of prosciutto.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 28, 2024

Padre Pio is an unholy mess.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 26, 2024

Padre Pio is often as rewarding as it is challenging.

| Jun 8, 2023

Ferrara’s Padre Pio is not the hero of his movie, far from it. But his sainted Pio does pose moral quandaries that may require heroic effort to reconcile.

| Jun 7, 2023

It's like two totally different movies have been slammed up against each other.

| Jun 6, 2023

It’s hard to say that this time the strange disjunctions between premise and execution will leave most viewers with much tangible reward.

| Jun 3, 2023

A dull slog, an oil-and-water hybrid of two different films, both with interesting ideas that never cohere into interesting filmmaking.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 2, 2023

The movie reignites long-ago events by the spark of physical contact, and its age-old difficulties illuminate current turmoils and battles with an absolute rage that appears to be very much like the filmmaker’s own.

| Jun 2, 2023

LaBeouf essays a rather, let’s say, contemporary Pio. And completely sinks the picture.

| Jun 1, 2023

The film is a fusion of two souls, each as rough-hewn and fragmentary as the other.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 30, 2023

A dull journey to a foregone conclusion.

| Original Score: C | Sep 5, 2022

In cinematic confession, no number of Hail Marys could make amends for this.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 2, 2022

It’s been a while that the maker of such ‘90s masterworks as King of New York... and The Addiction hasn’t been fully on top of his game, but Padre Pio, despite molto sincerity and a few flashes of bravado, feels beyond the point of redemption.

| Sep 2, 2022

It is a minor film, but interesting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 2, 2022