With its heavy imagery and overreaching academic tone, Coppola's conceit baffles more than it enlightens about the human condition.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2025

Youth Without Youth feels like walking through a library; the color palette is an autumnal mahogany and the actors speak in hushed tones. The storytelling is opaque, but all the more emotionally affecting and philosophically rewarding.

| Jan 11, 2025

A highly reflexive and thought-provoking cinematic style by a master film historian that changes the way the film feels throughout.

| Apr 28, 2021

Continually bogged down by monotonous dialogue and is overwrought by incoherent visuals and a convoluted storyline.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Nov 28, 2020

The first half of Youth has the tension of a crack thriller. But director Francis Ford Coppola has rigged things so that the suspense story melts into a New Age puddle.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 25, 2019

Coppola's latest succeeds thanks to its contrasts. Visually, the film runs the gamut from heady romance to all-out noir.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 6, 2018

While initially engaging, Youth Without Youth doesn't have sufficient legs to be anything more than an interesting exercise.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2018

Everything is futile in Francis Ford Coppola's first movie in over a decade, "Youth Without Youth", a sort of "Indiana Jones" meets pulp Proust.

| Nov 16, 2017

Youth Without Youth is pretentious as hell but so goofily in love with the idea of itself that you feel protective toward it, the way you would toward a platypus that has lost its way.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2011

Finds the filmmaker admirably working without a safety net

| Aug 27, 2009

Nem mesmo a bela fotografia e a impecável direção de arte conseguem salvar esta bagunça narrativa que, sob a desculpa de promover uma discussão metafísica, faz Coppola parecer um cineasta em início de carreira.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 19, 2009

Very much a film of this era, its director returning after a ten-year absence from the cinema with a peculiar little masterpiece about things unrecoverable in time.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 27, 2008

Youth Without Youth smacks of vanity project from the first poetic moments to the last, and whose vanity lays a stronger claim to the big screen than Francis Ford Coppola's?

| Nov 21, 2008

For all its flaws and there aren't very many, with Youth Without Youth you know you're in the hands of a master.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2008

Coppola may be back, but he's a long way from being back on form.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 14, 2008

A stilted and inelegant work, well below par for Francis Ford Coppola

| Nov 14, 2008

You want a story? Read the front page. I'm here for the picture show.

| Original Score: A | May 12, 2008

With all the nurses making moves on the suicidal old codger's renovated physique, Coppola's Youth Without Youth comes across as somewhere between The Godfather On Viagra and Apocalypse Then, Redux.

| May 9, 2008