It would be a disservice to consider this generous film a mere homage. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 18, 2022

If the film is a reflection of the Bellusconi bunga-bunga era and its hollowness, that's fine too. It still retains that melancholy and sadness and silence and thoughtfulness against that super stylized, slick, camera moves and gyrating, young bodies.

| Feb 22, 2021

The Great Beauty is a cinematic marvel that playfully asks what we find truly joyous in life and questions their validity with a sardonic over exuberance.

| Nov 4, 2020

Watching the enriching aesthetic of this film and witnessing its exuberant visual style is something that is priceless. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 25, 2020

This masterpiece of filmmaking, written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino seems at first to be a haphazard collage of images and sounds, but it somehow all fits together perfectly.

| Original Score: A | Jan 24, 2020

All things considered, you'd be hard pressed to find a more stunning, thoughtful, honest and stirring film than The Great Beauty.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 6, 2019

Sorrentino has finally followed up that overlooked gem (This Must Be the Place) with The Great Beauty.

| Jun 29, 2019

A wander through visceral vignettes of excess with a tender human heart.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 8, 2019

The Great Beauty is about a bored, jaded man but doesn't leave its audience bored or jaded which is itself an achievement.

| Mar 14, 2019

A self-conscious twenty-first century version of the Fellini classic, La Grande Bellezza is a visual feast, one of the relatively few films that takes full advantage of the extraordinary, almost hallucinatory beauty of Rome.

| Mar 8, 2019

The director certainly makes the most of Rome and its great beauty, making the city as much a protagonist as Jep.

| Mar 6, 2019

Sorrentino may well have made his masterpiece... The Great Beauty is a joyous cerebration of humankind's fleeting mortality.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 2, 2019

A thesis on opulence and how Rome has sated the aesthete sensibility of its main character.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2019

A travel by la città eterna. About the beauty, the desire, the life and, finally, the death. An audiovisual travel that worth doing. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 12, 2018

It's just a life, full of strangeness and beauty, abounding with some things and lacking others.

| Aug 28, 2018

Ranges from acidic to surprisingly thought-provoking, disturbing, and nuanced.

| Aug 8, 2018

At first, The Great Beauty plays like an enjoyably exuberant satire of modern Rome. Yet slowly, grandeur starts shining through the decadence.

| May 17, 2018

I'd like to say there was a plot, only there isn't: it is simply a baroque and beautiful reflection of a five-decade romance with Rome.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 7, 2018

Unfortunately, it seems to expect the audience to find it a revelation that all-night partying often conceals an underlying sadness.

| Feb 17, 2018

... a nostalgic journey - fantastic and surreal... [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 12, 2017