Life and its impossibility to live it. A beautiful portrait of the myth, the city and Parthenope. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 16, 2025

This long life story contains many beauties, rhyming imagery, and repeated bits of dialogue meant to sound clever and witty, but it soon becomes clear that there's not much going on.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2025

...the film at times resembles an extended clip, with long scenes that demonstrate how thin the plot is for a two-and-a-quarter-hour film. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 28, 2025

[Parthenope] is a personal and provocative work that clearly reveals that Sorrentino is not very interested in realism or political correctness. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 27, 2025

The film explores themes such as art, religion, and politics, all addressed within the context of the Italy that Sorrentino often portrays: a nation trapped between contradictions, with a unique geography and its corrupt leaders. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 22, 2025

Being an overly long, tired film with an erratic pace and a dreamlike tone, "Parthenope" becomes a frustrating experience. I didn't hate watching it, but considering the talent behind and in front of the camera, I expected more. [Full review in Spanish].

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 20, 2025

A flurry of other equally ridiculous moments.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Mar 4, 2025

Gorgeous sun-splashed seascapes provide a visually striking backdrop for an otherwise meandering and self-indulgent coming-of-age fantasy.

| Feb 28, 2025

‘Parthenope’ is a gorgeously filmed picture, but the narrative’s beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 22, 2025

Much like the movie's title character, Parthenope is pretty to look at but has a hollow personality. This Italian drama pretends to be erotic and provocative, but it is neither. Viewers might be as bored or frustrated as the movie's shallow characters.

| Feb 21, 2025

Marred by an insipid script and lead, Parthenope, a new twist on the mythical Greek figure, falls flat. Meant to be an erotic tale of irresistible woman whose vacant eyes, and easy sexuality are straight from the pre feminist past.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 21, 2025

When you combine that with a seemingly soulless lead character, it simply leaves us empty and unfulfilled, much like Parthenope.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 21, 2025

Parthenope, Paolo Sorrentino’s latest cinema exuberance, flutters like its recurring motif of a silk scarf caught in a Mediterranean breeze -- tantalizing, yet just out of reach.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 21, 2025

Parthenope can be a very sexy movie but since I wasn't attached to the characters it wasn't escapist or enjoyable.

| Feb 20, 2025

A gorgeous movie about the most beautiful woman in Italy, this fantasy/romance/something is a film made up of arresting moments that don't add up to any kind of coherence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2025

Celeste Dalla Porta plays the titular character, a breathtaking, beguiling beauty who is also smart. But in Sorrentino’s screenplay, there is precious little going on beneath her alabaster exterior. The camera does love her breasts, mind you.

| Original Score: C | Feb 20, 2025

"Parthenope" is an undeniably gorgeous movie, but it feels like a throwback to a day and age where women existed to only relate to men and had no independent dreams and desires.

| Feb 19, 2025

A two-dimensional examination of gender, tethered to a protagonist with no real depth.

| Feb 18, 2025

The longer the movie goes on, the older Parthenope gets. The older she gets, the weirder the story gets. And the weirder the story gets, the more I liked it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 18, 2025

Parthenope is about life itself—youth, aging, the passion for love, and what it means to be alive. We live vicariously through the woman at its heart.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 15, 2025