While the concept of "auteur cinema" had been circulating for years, it is with this film that it is definitively consolidated, marking the beginning of a new way of making films. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 23, 2025

Coppola was able to take a trashy pulp novel and turn it into something close to Shakespeare; a sweeping, epic tale of family, crime, corruption and the Immigrant experience in America.

| Jan 11, 2025

This is not only grand entertainment, but an emotional and intellectual experience to rival any in cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 12, 2024

The Godfather remains a powerful film that explores intricate themes that appear to contradict, but Coppola's storytelling ties it together.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 27, 2024

This magnificent multigenerational mafia drama represents a benchmark not just in crime movies but in American cinema as a whole.

| Aug 16, 2023

The Godfather works like a masterfully conducted orchestra, whose immaculate symphony is a meticulously crafted and extraordinarily integral thread in the fabric of cinema history.

| Jun 8, 2023

... Villains and criminals that fulfill the American dream with complete disregard for the American way. A contradiction that engenders gods. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 24, 2022

Now half a century old, Francis Ford Coppola's revered New Hollywood masterpiece has one of the best-known final shots in film history - but it almost had a much more Catholic ending.

| Apr 8, 2022

A cultural milestone.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 26, 2022

The Godfather is as much about America, and the American experience, as any other great movie is (50th anniversary)

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 25, 2022

Skepticism of American exceptionalism is far more commonplace now than it was when The Godfather was first released. But the fragility of the American Dream was revealing itself as the illusion it had always truly been.

| Mar 19, 2022

The Godfather films have set home-video standards for decades, and that trend continues with Paramounts astonishing 4K restorations.

| Mar 18, 2022

50 years after its release on March 24, 1972, The Godfather is now and forever, one of the greats.

| Mar 17, 2022

An engrossing metaphor for American capitalism, watching the film on the big screen emphasises the majesty of Coppolas work.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 11, 2022

It is a gangster film without any of the pity and hatred we might feel towards such aliens in our midst, because it recognises that in all of us there is the ignition towards power and criminality.

| Mar 7, 2022

The Godfather justifies every minute of its extravagant running time.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 25, 2022

For all its graphic violence, the movie was—unlike the novel it was based on—no mere exercise in popcorn sensationalism; it was emotionally complex, tragic, melancholy, definitely for grownups.

| Feb 24, 2022

As the doomy burnish of Gordon Willis’s photography captures the darkened souls of the Corleones, the effect is flat-out mesmeric.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 24, 2022

The Godfather is the most memorable, most influential, most quoted, most beloved, most discussed, most imitated, most revered and most entertaining American movie ever made.

| Feb 23, 2022

Five decades later, The Godfather still resonates with the paradigm shifts from one generation to the next, still influences one filmmaker after another, and continues to be the foundation of a lasting mythology.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 20, 2022