A loose film that completely fails due to its erroneous approach and treatment. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 12, 2020

Roberto Benigni here plays out a madcap tale of romantic obsession against the backdrop of the Iraq invasion. The results are neither profound nor funny.

| Jan 4, 2007

Unlike the pre-온라인카지노추천 world of concentration camps seen in Life is Beautiful, the Iraq war is something we are all directly familiar with.

| Jan 3, 2007

As a writer and director, Benigni's off-the-wall originality is striking--but sometimes he goes too far.

| Jan 2, 2007

Chaplinesque Italian comedian Benigni's valentine to love is an anti-war film without political bite but full of winsome charm.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 30, 2006

Benigni can't even be bothered to get the chronology or the details of the American occupation right, and his keen visual sense isn't enough to save him: Benigni's artfully composed images are as empty as his political convictions.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 29, 2006

This film, one of the worst of 2006, almost has to be seen to be believed -- a comedy about a man who goes to Iraq, and, amid a string of comic misadventures, tries to save the life of his love, who has been gravely wounded in a bombing.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Dec 29, 2006

Like Life Is Beautiful, The Tiger and the Snow incongruously offers sharp laughs and touches of tenderness amid moments of drama and danger.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Dec 29, 2006

He certainly never shuts up, and he never stops joking; he's a neurotic narcissist to whom a war and a country's misery mean little except how they affect him personally.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 29, 2006

The only award Benigni's misconceived and unfunny The Tiger and the Snow could possibly win is for Worst Movie of 2006.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Dec 29, 2006

Shameless, utterly predictable and grimly unfunny nonsense.

| Dec 29, 2006

It's mostly Benigni jumping around and waving his hands like he always does.When the occasional sobering tragedy strikes, it has little impact because the groundwork for it has not been properly prepared.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2006

Perhaps a greater passage of time was needed to provide a more effective historical perspective, but Tiger has a bigger problem with a dramatic structure that sags conspicuously in the middle, never to completely correct itself.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2006

What Benigni was able to do so improbably in a World War II concentration camp in his masterpiece Life Is Beautiful - find comedy - he is utterly unable to do in the shock-and-awed streets of Baghdad in the early days of Gulf War II.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 29, 2006

Roberto Benigni's film is a scorching affront to Italians, Iraqis and the intelligence of movie audiences everywhere.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 29, 2006

Neither profound nor funny, but merely uncomfortable. A hubristic failure at risky humor, The Tiger and the Snow provides Benigni his own Michael Richards moment.

| Dec 28, 2006

[Roberto Benigni's] an irritating goofball at times, but there's a genuine sense of tragedy and darkness -- of the most ancient traditions of clowning, in fact -- underneath it all.

| Dec 28, 2006

Benigni is floundering here, and it only gets worse as the film goes along. There's no real sense of any danger, no real identification with any of the characters. No laughs, which is what you need in a comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.1/5 | Dec 28, 2006

The notion of using the Iraq war as a backdrop for comedy is risky, but I'm sure there's someone who could pull it off. Sadly, Benigni isn't that someone.

Full Review | Dec 28, 2006