Youth may not reach the heights of the director’s previous work, The Great Beauty, but it is still a curious examination of the themes of memory, regret, and coming to terms with a life lived.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 2, 2024

Akin to a melody that resonates in your mind in a continual loop of madness and pleasure, Youth is a not-so-easily eradicable experience.

| Aug 1, 2023

Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel do their best work in years.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 23, 2022

"Youth" surprises us to show how much interest and intrigue can be found in foppish people we normally wouldn't closely identify with as an audience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2021

Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino's Youth is a visual and verbal dribble about aging.

| Feb 26, 2021

It's almost impossible to feel sympathy for normally great actors Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel as they are given characters who seem to mourn the loss of their patriarchal identity.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 16, 2020

Appreciating the project as a whole will be entirely dependent on viewers' admiration of abstract ideas over standard storytelling.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 4, 2020

Overwrought nine-tenth-life crisis drama in which even a great cast... cannot create a lick of sympathy for the artistic and existential turning points on arty display.

| Nov 22, 2020

Full of confidence, Sorrentino's direction never wavers and he sees the film through to the end.

| Mar 16, 2020

Beside the ace cinematography, Caine and Keitel's buddy routine is the best thing about Youth.

| Jan 13, 2020

A unique examination and contemplation of life and age, which is uniquely told with some random abandon but filled with a delicious dark, yet at times, quirky humor.

| Nov 29, 2019

The editing, work of Cristiano Travaglioli, deserves our full attention. We are probably talking about his most refined work, which together with the director's work, results the most perfect film of his filmography. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 29, 2019

Immersive, lush and tender, yet oddly lacking in emotional power despite the affecting performances, Youth is a frustrating and joyous film in equal measure.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2019

As a writer-director, Sorrentino is an unquestionable talent; it would just be nice if he didn't rely on such pretentious contrivances to tell us what we already know.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 8, 2019

Like The Great Beauty, Youth has great cinematography but when the results are this loathsome, I'm reminded of how much I would rather see a dimly lit, poorly shot film with a great script than another monstrosity with great stills.

| Mar 7, 2019

Sorrentino's floating gaze transcends mere petty politics for much deeper, almost epiphanic readings of his characters' respective journeys.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 14, 2018

Fred, Lena, and Mick are not interesting characters; nothing about their appearance stands out, and their problems (infidelity, betrayal, alienation) are all very bland.

| Aug 23, 2018

It is the sort of the film where you must allow the musical score to wash over you like waves lapping on the beach whilst your eyes bathe in the colours on screen.

| Aug 21, 2018

While the dreamlike imagery is lovely and attempting to solve Sorrentino's ambiguous themes will probably help you develop a strong mental stamina, it's not an experience many would consider unpretentious.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 26, 2018

There are several major problems with Youth. What it has to say about youth, maturity and old age remains unclear.

| Jan 11, 2018