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

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

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

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

All hail the revival of one of Bernardo Bertolucci's best films.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 29, 2008

A beautifully imagined portrait of moral and political cowardice.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 29, 2008

Bertolucci's film has the compelling quality of a bad dream.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 29, 2008

One of the most referenced and extraordinary films in cinema history.

Full Review | Feb 29, 2008

A visual masterpiece thanks to Storaro's keen eye and Bertolucci's assured direction.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 28, 2008

Ravishing to the eye but less than fully satisfying to the mind.

| Dec 7, 2007

The movie is pure magic as story, as drama, as photography, as conviction, as everything except its ideas.

| Sep 7, 2006

Juggling past and present with the same bravura flourish as Welles in Citizen Kane, Bertolucci conjures a dazzling historical and personal perspective.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/6 | Feb 9, 2006

... seems every bit the masterpiece it was when first released by Paramount.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 28, 2005

As striking as Bertolucci's classic looks, there's even more powerful stuff in the storytelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 22, 2005

An eye-watering testimony to the erstwhile dash of international cinema.

Full Review | Jul 26, 2005

There are excesses in the film, but they are balanced by scenes of such unusual beauty and vitality that I couldn't care less.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 20, 2003

[A] beautiful, complex, massively layered adaptation of the Alberto Moravia novel.

| Mar 10, 2003