Sorrentino's coming-of-age is his most personal film yet, and a love letter to football, Maradona-era Naples and cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2025

Paolo Sorrentino’s new Netflix feature, The Hand of God, is an expectedly poetic coming-of-age drama set against a sun-kissed Neopolitan backdrop.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 18, 2024

Sorrentino uses the coming-of-age genre to turn his own personal tragedy into a beguiling fable of family and creativity lost and found.

| Feb 13, 2024

The Hand of God is a love letter to Italy and for Sorrentino, it becomes a form of escapism and a humane portrayal of a grief-stricken teenager as he enters a new world.

| Jul 21, 2023

[Sorrentino] has crafted a story even more personal within his canon, perhaps the most intimate and honest. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 13, 2022

Sure, it's a visually beautiful journey through a nostalgic world, but the tonal and narrative shifts prove to be inorganic and forced.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 11, 2022

As existentialist as 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963), as personal as Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, 2018) ... and technically spectacular. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 28, 2022

A marvelous result…nostalgic, and luminous. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 85/100 | May 12, 2022

Is hope enough to tell a story? Or pain? Knowing ourselves is only enough when you let other people know themselves by what you have to say. The Hand of God is an absolute masterpiece that reminded me of who I am. Full review in Spanish

| Original Score: 10/10 | Apr 7, 2022

Once again it feels like Sorrentino's sensibility is too easy and sentimental to get the movie where it so clearly wants to go.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 11, 2022

More than just a pretty European art film, The Hand of God is a sensitive memoir that possesses all the beauty and pain of the best memories.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2022

Revisiting and amplifying the impressions of his youth in the first half allow him to present a charged spectrum of lifes fullness, but in the second part he appears constrained by the material and uncertain how to reflect on his psychological state.

| Feb 26, 2022

Dreadful. This movie is a dog. Dogdamn it.

| Original Score: ZERO STARS | Feb 20, 2022

"Filmmaker Paul Sorrentino's poignant, intensely personal coming-of-age story, set i Naples in the 1980."

| Original Score: 7/0 | Feb 19, 2022

"'The Hand of God' feels like a companion piece to Sorrentino's outstanding 2015 film 'Youth'... both productions explore themes of female madness and how alluring women affect the closest men in their lives..."

| Feb 18, 2022

Dazzling images and intimate storytelling converge in Sorrentino's most personal film. One where cinema not only mimics reality, but offers redemption. Full Review in Spanish

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 12, 2022

Sorrentino harmonizes humor with tragedy through the coming-of-age story of Fabietto, a young man with a passion for soccer star Diego Maradona and filmmaker Federico Fellini. A delicate tale that is splendidly shot and cleverly told.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 11, 2022

For a long time, the movie meanders maddeningly, and, like Fellini, Sorrentino seems to have an unsettling taste for the grotesque, but things snap into focus when tragedy strikes, and we wind up with a vivid and loving portrait that stays with us.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 22, 2022

Sorrentino is more successful in the scenes about family life. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 19, 2022

Paolo Sorrentino's direction is perfect. His cinematographer, Daria D'Antonio, has captured Naples beautifully. The film focuses on a tight-knit family, but in its telling, it plays out like an epic.

| Jan 14, 2022