There are bits of greatness scattered throughout this film, and even if Ferrara does not manage to convince us entirely, these pieces, as well as Dafoe’s acting, make Tommaso a very curious film, especially character-wise.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2024

Cinema as a form of processing...

| Nov 9, 2023

The film exhibits genuine and unusual courage from Ferrara. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 31, 2023

The traits that define Ferrara's best work are present and precise...a mixture of the mundane and the otherworldly, the physical and the spiritual, the material and the mystical.

| Jun 5, 2021

Willem Dafoe is a fine actor and he makes the most of the title role. He emotes the hell out of it, but I sure could not make much sense out of this movie.

| Original Score: C | Feb 14, 2021

If Tommaso was 20 to 30 minutes shorter, perhaps it would be a more palatable viewing experience and would feel less meandering.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 1, 2021

That's the nature of Ferrara's world; a world where pleasure and pain can't stay apart from each other.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 14, 2021

Ferrara and Dafoe have together been slowly building up an ongoing miniature Human Comedy in the shadows.

| Nov 3, 2020

A Ferrara's drama with a moderate performance from Dafoe, shot in an evident documentary style, but which in the long term is swept away by a narrative as empty as the streets of Rome at midnight. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/10 | Oct 8, 2020

A film that works like a mirror: the director watch himself in an audiovisual work like a therapy itself. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 5, 2020

One of [director Abel Ferrara's] most memorable films. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2020

A sad, but above all beautiful movie. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2020

Like the screen personas of Ferrara and Dafoe themselves, Tommaso draws you in with a kind of cool friendliness that verges on the distrustful or psychotic.

| Sep 16, 2020

With Ferrara's films we are always confronted with surprising changes, and scenes out of the ordinary [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 28, 2020

Although the drama Tommaso is elevated by the terrific talent of star Willem Dafoe, too much of the movie is unfocused and self-indulgent, and it's far from being one of [Abel] Ferrara's best films.

| Jul 21, 2020

A slow and unerring film with an impeccable story and performances. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 6, 2020

Willem Dafoe's performance breathes life into this semi-autobiographical film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 23, 2020

a portrait told in broad strokes that are sometimes too broad, but more often than not find some real power and insight in the details in-between

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 22, 2020

[I]n its execution, the film haphazardly makes a brilliant point about the price of reinventing yourself without first learning empathy.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 22, 2020

No '8 1/2,' but it has its points of interest, even if as a whole it's as frustrating as its title character.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 18, 2020