Brian Cox gives one of his finest performances in this familiar but affecting drama about a cantankerous Scotsman facing his journey's end.

| Apr 5, 2020

If nothing else, the movie makes a strong case for Cox's astounding resilience, an ability to take even the most routine gig and deepen its potential.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 3, 2020

Rory is often a brute, but The Etruscan Smile forgives that all because he is being authentically himself. But at the cost of every other character?

| Feb 25, 2020

Soap opera elements are unavoidable, but the film has energy and spirit, thanks to Cox's bright, charming performance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2019

While Cox's typically sterling performance is not quite enough to rescue The Etruscan Smile from succumbing to bathos, it goes a long way toward making the film palatable.

| Oct 31, 2019

I'd have happily watched Cox flirt with Rosanna Arquette's museum curator for 90 minutes; her game attempts to parrot his Gaelic and a tentative kiss while gardening, knee-deep in soil, are strangely charming.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 2, 2019

Co-directed by two Israelis, adapted from an Italian-set novel, it's 100 per cent inauthentic.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 31, 2019

Capable performers throng these otherwise nondescript digital frames, vainly trying to persuade us we're not watching some rogue telefilm.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 30, 2019

It's a quiet film, full of pain, love, life, and death that highlights generational divides. Brezis and Binnun offer little camera movement, making for simple shots that show the characters' emotional complexity.

| Oct 10, 2018