The film, made in 1968, was provocative then and remains so now. But it doesn't elucidate its ambivalent moral secrets easily.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2013

It is as if Pasolini has imagined how Italy's bland, complacent, stagnant governing class could be blown wide open: like putting a hundredweight of dynamite in the San Andreas fault.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 11, 2013

Whichever of the various interpretations you ascribe to this socio-political parody, the quality is undeniable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 8, 2013

The narrative, almost silent in the first half, is unusually clear for a film by Pasolini. Performance by all members of the cast are praiseworthy, though Stamp dominates the first half and Betti, the second.

| Oct 23, 2007

What would be pretentious and strained in the hands of most directors, with Pasolini takes on an intense air of magical revelation.

| Feb 9, 2006

Highly regarded in some quarters, Pier Paulo Pasolini's Teorema is basically a film about Terence Stamp's crotch.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 6, 2005

The movie itself is the message, a series of cool, beautiful, often enigmatic scenes that flow one into another with the rhythm of blank verse.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2005

I don't feel ready to write about this mysterious film; perhaps, a week from now, I'll decide it is very bad, a failure. But perhaps it is the most brilliant work yet by that strange director, Pier Paolo Pasolini.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Apart from his final feature, Salo, this is probably Pier Paolo Pasolini's most controversial film, and to my mind one of his very best.

| Jan 1, 2000