Youth has nothing new to say, its Italian thematic aesthetic nothing more than a mask for an emotional schadenfreude impossible to take pleasure in.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 18, 2016

Sorrentino wants to say something profound about illnesses that bury loved ones alive. But the pompous lines kill the mood.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 31, 2016

Occasionally the warring elements come together, finding plaintive and heartfelt song amid the cacophony of seemingly random voices.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 31, 2016

In his culminating despair, Keitel says: "We're all just extras." You wouldn't want to be even that here ...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 29, 2016

Sorrentino has enough standing to attract stars of the calibre of Caine, Keitel and even Jane Fonda... It's just that its messages... are rather beneath them. All that effort is wasted on Youth.

| Jan 28, 2016

The film is far too flighty to allow its actors to bring much depth or pathos to their characters.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 28, 2016

A joyous, gently moving experience anchored by a fearless central turn from Michael Caine.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2016

An Alpine study of ageing and creativity that's as fresh and bracing as the mountain air, although occasionally just as chilly.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 28, 2016

Sumptuous, sincere and built on aging bones, "Youth" is a wonder of a film, a look back at life's sprawling possibilities, dark corners and aspirations.

| Original Score: A+ | Dec 25, 2015

Youth may not be as culturally specific as The Great Beauty or Sorrentino's other Italian-language films, but its universal story of how to deal with the passing of time and with changing circumstances is told with precision and tender serenity.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 18, 2015

Youth is a meditation on aging, on friendship, on love, loss, wisdom, disillusionment, pain.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 18, 2015

There is little life here. Only artifice. And some howlingly awful dialogue.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 17, 2015

Rumination and regret dominate the proceedings, but the exquisite visual splendor of the film is a character in its own right and lightens the tone just enough to keep it from tipping over into the maudlin. Certain perfect sequences stay with you.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 17, 2015

Absolutely beautiful and sometimes maddening while never offering easy answers.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 17, 2015

Writer-director Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) has made something of a crowd pleaser, a gorgeous consideration of the artistic impulse that yields up its fruits without too much of a struggle.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 16, 2015

Save for a pair of profound moments, don't be surprised if your mind frequently wanders off during Youth, despite all its weighty subjects arbitrarily hammered on screen.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 16, 2015

Film is a medium that consecrates memory, which makes it an especially apt metaphor in a movie about two old men.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 15, 2015

Michael Caine, superb as always, is back at work in this sublimely visual treatise on...

| Dec 11, 2015

The two veterans play off each other splendidly; other eccentric characters weave in and out winningly as well.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 11, 2015

There's real humanity here, and it may hit closer to home than you'd expect.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 10, 2015