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

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

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

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

| Jul 7, 2010

It's hard to think of a more remarkable tribute to the resilience of the human spirit than the one Umberto D. puts on the screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 5, 2002

One of the great humanist cinema works: a portrayal of age, poverty and simple lives in postwar Rome that is both luminous and heartbreaking.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 20, 2002

This simple, almost Chaplinesque story of a man fighting to preserve his dignity is even more moving for its firm grasp of everyday activities.

| Jun 24, 2002

Heroes like Umberto D. are hard to find, and your life will be better for having met him.

Full Review | Jun 1, 2002

It is said that at one level or another, Chaplin's characters were always asking that we love them. Umberto doesn't care if we love him or not. That is why we love him.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 13, 2002

A slow-moving, gentle movie about the harsh facts of life.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Apr 4, 2002

The moral punch of a postwar 'art film' classic like Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D. (1952) can be bruising, if only for the movie's unblinking consideration of how society discards the unwanted elderly.

Full Review | Feb 12, 2002