Fact-based tale about Mafia kidnapping; violence, language.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 12, 2019

Meandering, yes, but a deeply intriguing and interesting take on the demise of youth, the hope of love and power of poetry.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 11, 2019

This ghost story makes no attempt to scare us with cheap shocks.

| Jan 17, 2019

It is the fairy-tale mood that makes this movie special.

| Jan 3, 2019

Although the story can feel chilly and oblique, it gets under your skin.

| Dec 13, 2018

It is by far the best trip the recent cinema has taken 'into the woods.'

| Nov 30, 2018

[An] intensely atmospheric melodrama...

| Nov 29, 2018

A divine blend of natural and supernatural, fantasy and actuality, "Sicilian Ghost Story" reflects the horrors of a Mafia kidnapping through the prism of first love.

| Nov 29, 2018

Beautifully haunting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 27, 2018

Sicilian Ghost Story is determinedly unclassifiable, blurring genres with a fervor that grows tedious.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 21, 2018

Sicilian Ghost Story is a melancholy poem to the part of us we can't allow to be wrung out by the complacency and compliance of adulthood.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 6, 2018

It's an array of surprises and character introspections that take their time to manifest completely, but prove an inspired way for the directors to go about their business.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 31, 2018

While Sicilian Ghost Story doesn't entirely fulfil its promise as a richly themed gothic romance, the visual craft on display throughout is more than enough to recommend.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2018

A tender, vividly fantastical thriller based on the Sicilian mafia's real-life kidnapping of a 13-year-old boy in 1993.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2018

The film's shadowy, ambiguous trips into fantasy are spellbinding but also sentimental, and the fact (given in a caption) that the story was inspired by a real kidnapping makes that sentimentality hard to accept.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 6, 2018

Piazza and Grassadonia handle their ghostly story sensitively, and with consummate skill.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 6, 2018

Told in half-light, with the symbolism of forests and animals and Luna's apple-proffering scary mother, the story-telling is not straightforward, it requires audience submission, but the pay-off is great.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 6, 2018

The film-makers deftly husband moods and tones. Everything still hinges on the excellent performances of Fernandez and Jedlikowska. The teenagers, who had never acted before, acquit themselves with plenty of verve.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 6, 2018

An unforgettable wander into the dark past of a beautiful place.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 6, 2018

While the fantastical elements provide a distance for the audience from the bleak core of the story, they also heighten the sense of enveloping melancholy of this aching tale of thwarted first love.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 6, 2018