Lush, even drenching 1970 masterpiece... A cinematic confection of near-perfection at high velocity, its stylistic prowess and textural largesse is often cited as a major influence by [may major] directors including Steven Spielberg.

| Original Score: 10/10 | May 14, 2023

All this adds up to something more than mere style, or mannerism—even if it was not a very precise match to Moravia’s coolly detached prose, which perhaps more exactly portrayed Marcello’s amoral soullessess...

| Apr 20, 2023

In lesser hands, The Conformist would be a first-rate political thriller, and while there are moments of tension, Bertolucci finds more drama in the thrills of human psychology.

| Mar 3, 2023

The Conformist builds a world of great beauty as a staging ground for nightmares.

| Jan 3, 2023

Bertolucci must now be considered one of the most distinctive creators with film.

| Jan 11, 2020

The Conformist is a beautiful and provocative film, and its theme could not be more timely.

| Oct 21, 2019

As a piece of storytelling, The Conformist is engaging and enigmatic; as a succession of images, it's a masterpiece with jaw-dropping grandeur.

| Aug 14, 2019

It's easy to overlook how stark The Conformist's political and allegorical message is because it's just so damn beautiful.

| Dec 3, 2018

Its importance is that it uncomfortably relates the causes of political involvement (that clich again) and the cost of such involvement...

| Jun 13, 2018

... heightened, exaggerated, distorted, the world reimagined by the filmmakers as something familiar yet not. It is magnificent ...

| Feb 12, 2016

The one and only quintessential all-time masterpiece that trades, extensively, on its ideal viewer's knowledge of the history of 20th Century interior design.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 25, 2015

It's a superb performance by Trintignant, whose presence is the film is physically passive even as he tries to play the confident, intellectual leader of men.

| Mar 14, 2015

It's yesteryear remembered with a combination of nostalgia and repulsion, a queasy combination that defines the film and gives it a kind of hideous allure.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 24, 2014

Visual splendor reigns supreme in Bertolucci's dazzling historical dreamscape

| Sep 29, 2014

The unsettling blend of images and ideas in this movie cannot satisfactorily be disentangled or decoded, and it's the very strangeness of Bertolucci's masterpiece that has made it so influential in cinema history.

| Aug 29, 2014

Bertolucci's boldest and most expressive film ...

| Aug 26, 2014

Few films really deserve the term 'masterpiece,' but this one does.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 20, 2011

Photographed by Vittorio Storraro, it's a mlange of the sensual haziness of '70s European art-house fair and the high-contrast, anxious angles of film noir

| Dec 15, 2010

The Conformist is celebrated for cinematographer Vittorio Storaro's tumbling autumn leaves, but its emotional impact involves a tumbling soul.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 15, 2010

The art house meets Hollywood neo-noir in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist, a film that isn't recognized enough as the masterpiece that it is.

| Original Score: 92/100 | Jun 7, 2010