A timeless portrayal of the bonds of sisterly love, a theme amplified by both the defiance and pathos of Henderson's wonderful performance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 19, 2016

The adult fairytale is a freakish, hybrid, disturbing creature, mostly forgotten in these days of Disney sanitisation, but Tale of Tales resurrects the genre with surreal humour and gothic horror.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2016

Tale Of Tales is a Felliniesque fantasy drama, distinguished by its lavish production design and very fluid camera work.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2016

This is fantastically unhinged, veering madly between wonder and horror, gorgeousness and grotesquery.

| Jun 16, 2016

Garrone recognises the anarchy and delirium in the fairy-tale tradition, and that anarchy and delirium, properly orchestrated, can do us good.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2016

We're tickled, we're charmed and we're still wondering what the point was.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 15, 2016

A lavish curio that at times tests your patience, but rewards you with its sumptuous design.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 9, 2016

It balances otherworldliness and banality, sublimity and grotesquery, wonder and horror.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 2, 2016

There have been a glut of fairy tale adaptations, from "Into the Woods," "Maleficient" and "Jack the Giant Slayer" to the network 온라인카지노추천 shows "Grimm" and "Once Upon a Time," but if you're a fan make room for "Tale of Tales."

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2016

Its eventual effect proves to be complex and mesmerizing in its political intentions, which includes not only a feminist agenda but also a critique of oppressive social systems.

| May 6, 2016

More spellbinding than satisfying, but memorable and even haunting all the same.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 5, 2016

With a focus on corporeal gore and psychological realism, Tale of Tales attempts to re-Grimmify the fairy tale, rather than fracture or deconstruct it la the sly Into the Woods or The Princess Bride.

| May 3, 2016

Garrone makes you feel as if you've stepped into a world where fickle gods play crack-the-whip with man's-and woman's-fate.

| Apr 29, 2016

The director invests his filmmaking with so much bawdy, darkly comic energy that it's all the more perplexing that "Tale of Tales" never quite stirs to life.

| Apr 28, 2016

Rapturous images on the brink between dream and nightmare.

| Original Score: B | Apr 28, 2016

Garrone has created a world of both rich and ugly textures - visual, narrative and imaginative - that transports, delights and imparts disturbing lessons.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 28, 2016

It's never a boring film to look at, but it is often a tiring one.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 28, 2016

Garrone's previous films (including 2008's harrowing Gomorrah about the Neapolitan mafia) haven't hinted at the sort of playful, mischievous whimsy found in Tale of Tales.

| Original Score: B | Apr 22, 2016

What Garrone & co. have concocted is a Grand Guignol pop-up storybook, full of metaphorical dark woods and morality plays.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 22, 2016

The structuring feels arbitrary; the film switches narratives willy-nilly, without resolving a particular note or even aiming to surprise, jar, switch gears.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 22, 2016