All the ingredients are here for a moving coming-of-age story; the acting is excellent, the script just the right side of sentimental.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 10, 2024

A testimony to the brilliance of an ageing screen veteran.

| Sep 27, 2023

It is absolutely moving, especially by Loren, who commands the screen with grace and humanity.

| Mar 6, 2023

The Life Ahead serves as Sophia Loren’s heartfelt and high-spirited homecoming to film, and she is a fervent and fiery force to behold.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2022

Gueye is a promising new talent.

| May 13, 2021

There are distantly predictable elements of 'Life's' story, but Loren ensures that the film has a heart and soul.

| Apr 22, 2021

A wonderfully crafted character study of Rosa and Momo, both of whom fight the inevitable sad truths of the world.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 23, 2021

Unexceptional and undistinguished, outside of Loren's monumental presence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2021

The legendary Sophia Loren isn't resting on her laurels. After a seven-decade career rich with many landmarks in international cinema, she is now, at 86, delivering a commanding and soulful performance in the Netflix drama, The Life Ahead.

| Mar 19, 2021

Gueye is quite a find, confident and charismatic enough to convince as the only person in the city who can really stand up to Madame Rosa -- and, perhaps, reawaken feelings she long ago learned to do without.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 18, 2021

A lovely tale of unlikely friendship featuring a beautiful comeback role from Sophia Loren + newcomer Ibrahima Gueye. There's a lot of emotions packed in a breezy 94 min running time, which is always nice as the film never overstays its welcome.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 9, 2021

Shamelessly manipulative, this formulaic debacle fails to offer something new; and even more important, something solid.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 28, 2021

It is Loren's performance that earns "The Life Ahead" any recommendation for a watch ... Everyone else is a bit player in her show. The movie star, though older, has the same on-screen presence and "it" factor that made her a household name.

| Jan 27, 2021

Despite its memorable performances, The Life Ahead follows a conventional dramatic formula without offering much new. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 8, 2021

They just don't make dynamos like Loren any more, and "The Life Ahead" reminds of how much will be lost when a diva like she departs for her ultimate role far beyond the restraints of our mortal universe.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 25, 2020

Getting to [the] preordained relationship is a sweet enough journey.

| Dec 4, 2020

As a drama, it has a start that excites me with the remarkable performances from Loren and the little Ibrahima Gueye, but it slowly traverses a conventional, predictable and redundant terrain that removes all its vigor. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 1, 2020

At 86, Sophia Loren is back! In her terrific new tearjerker, directed by her son Edoardo Ponti, she heartwarmingly plays a former prostitute, Holocaust survivor and caretaker for streetwalkers' children.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 30, 2020

Ponti allows for a quietly resplendent Loren to fill out this contemporized tale of an Auschwitz survivor's unlikely camaraderie with a young Muslim orphan in a version wholly dependent on the energy of its two leads.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 30, 2020

The Life Ahead is a beautifully, poignant film perfectly illustrating the power of humanity versus class and race with an award winning performances from Sophia Loren

| Nov 26, 2020