This quasi-confessional drama about a frustrated filmmaker, written and directed by Abel Ferrara, plays more like a vain boast.

| Jun 15, 2020

As such, it's a glossy, overlong, intermittently arresting tour of an aging artist's fears and fancies as his wild ways are domesticated.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 8, 2020

What sets Tommaso apart are its diaristic qualities, held together by Dafoe's performance.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 6, 2020

The camera stays close to Dafoe for nearly every moment of the movie and he brings a compelling vibrancy to the screen.

| Jun 6, 2020

Even if third-act nods to Malick and late-era Jodorowsky may be a little too far removed from Ferrara's true strengths. Yet better a director like Ferrara strive for fascinating reinvention and self-reflection than rest on old laurels.

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

The film ultimately lacks a balance between portraying Tommaso as a man rebuilding his life and as a man plagued by the recurring mistakes of his younger years.

| Jun 5, 2020

If this film were a person, I would risk my life to save it.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 5, 2020

"Tommaso" [crackles] with ideas and empathy, as Ferrara's best work always does.

| Jun 4, 2020

Dafoe nearly saves all of this.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 3, 2020

Abel Ferrara's film is about that precise feeling of living with an itch unscratched.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 2, 2020

Poetic, moving and unflinching in its honesty, Tommaso is Ferrara's finest film since his criminally underrated magnum opus 4:44 Last Day on Earth.

| Feb 13, 2020

Fascinating-no, riveting-because of the multiple male sexual anxiety and wish fulfillment subtexts dancing around the screen as Dafoe played a character too close to Ferrara for comfort...

| Aug 27, 2019

Ferrara, working with a stately roving camera... has made a movie of feints and digressions, a portrait of a filmmaker who gets dragged down, even though he's doing all he can to lead a sober, moral life.

| May 23, 2019

Fortunately, Dafoe is almost always center-screen, and he's always good to watch here.

| May 22, 2019

Ferrara may not be drawing entirely from his own experiences, but there's no question with Tommaso he knows this terrain intimately.

| May 21, 2019

A gripping look at the process of escaping to a better life, only to find that the old one follows along at every turn.

| Original Score: B | May 21, 2019

We've seen relationship troubles like this play out in countless films before but Dafoe gives it more weight than most.

| May 21, 2019