Umberto D. is an almost-perfect slice-of-life.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 22, 2024

Few directors could manage... the beautiful cadence in this film where the coming of day is enacted through the actions of Maria as she gets out of bed. The scene is wordless, leisured and almost unbearably intimate.

| Jan 17, 2024

The unemphatic acting of Carlo Battisti and Maria Pia Casilio falls perfectly into place. It ls a brave film and, again, a disturbing one.

| Sep 14, 2022

The story of “Umberto D.” is very simple in scope but powerful in message.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

Not since France, before the war, sent us The End of the Day has a film honorably faced the fact of old age. This is the subject, probingly, beautifully detailed in [Umberto D.].

| Aug 16, 2022

It is exquisite in its simplicity, and if "Neo-realism" had to finally give way in the Italian cinema to a more optimistic outlook, it is good to see that up to the last no compromise with the truth was made.

| Jun 7, 2022

The name of Umberto D. will forever be associated with the rich stream of the Italian neo-realistic tradition.

| Mar 29, 2022

Earns a place among the most life-affirming motion pictures ever made.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 20, 2022

Umberto D at least owes its failings to its ambitions. What is successful about it is not only in the forefront of neo-realism but also at the most daring point of the invisible avant-garde which we seek to defend.

| Feb 1, 2021

While cinema may not have a tangible effect on our every day lives, something like Umberto D. may make you want to be a better person.

| Nov 18, 2020

What a wrenching vision, what a painful, impassioned plea for overlooked masses.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 6, 2019

Vittorio De Sica's memorable ''Umberto D'' seems more sentimental now, but as you stay with it, the small story grows to a most moving climax.

| Jan 9, 2018

...a picture of a man who has been cast into a dehumanizing vortex, largely because of others' indifference.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 15, 2014

Even sentimentality is something that springs naturally from the characters' situations. Umberto has an immense amount of pride despite his impoverished conditions and his attempts to survive aren't accompanied by the usual filmic theatrics.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 13, 2012

Umberto D. could have been one of the most depressing movies ever made, but instead it's one of the most heartfelt.

| Sep 26, 2012

The performances, especially that of the maid, Maria Pia Casilio, are real and compelling.

| Jul 7, 2010

A neo-realist classic that is very likely the inspiration for "Wendy and Lucy". The two make for very interesting watching side-by-side.

| Apr 28, 2009

Um dos melhores exemplares do neo-realismo italiano, pinta um retrato tocante da misria do ps-guerra ao mesmo tempo em que, sem qualquer melodrama, cria personagens inesquecveis em suas dores.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 7, 2009

De Sica somehow manages to avert sentimentality and banality, and his simple storytelling leaves a profound and timeless message.

| Original Score: A | Nov 27, 2006

De Sica takes a premise that drips with sentimentality and wipes all the sappiness away, leaving only raw action and subtle underlying emotion.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 11, 2006