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By Lee Marshall (157) for Screen International (2,241) on 16 Dec 2009

Probably the most authentic and unsentimental mafia movie ever to come out of Italy…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 30 Sep 2009

So fasten your seat belts for Gomorrah, just snubbed in the wussy Oscar race for Best Foreign Film (so you know it's dynamite)…

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By Jean-François Vandeuren (109) for Panorama (165) on 29 Jun 2009

Un film à la fois lourd, tragique et hautement instructif figurant assurément parmi les plus marquants à avoir été réalisés sur le sujet…

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By Enrique Buchichio (359) for Uruguay Total (359) on 03 Jun 2009

Dicen mucho más sobre la Camorra las leyendas finales del film que las dos horas y pico que les precedieron…

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By Nick Dent (153) for Time Out Sydney (74) on 21 May 2009

The result, while admirable, is curiously flat and unengaging…

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By Des Partridge (52) for Daily Telegraph (Australia) (376) on 14 May 2009

It is a challenging approach, and while there is suspense and action (including a spectacular car crash), there is frustration as a result…

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By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 14 May 2009

We don't get to know the characters, exactly, but we experience something more interesting: we are brought into disconcerting, almost documentary…

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By Julie Rigg (120) for MovieTime, ABC Radio National (314) on 13 May 2009

Could Gomorrah and Il Divo signal the return of Italian political cinema? Here's hoping…

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By Margaret Pomeranz (380) for At the Movies (Australia) (716) on 12 May 2009

The portrait it paints of this society in the grip of this tawdry but immensely powerful and rich organization is scary indeed…

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By Hernán Alcerreca (11) for FILMINK (Australia) (1,405) on 12 May 2009

Gomorrha transcends its medium and evidences humanity at its most despicable, and rates as an unconventional and unmissable instant classic…

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By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 07 May 2009

The sinewy production could almost pass for documentary %u2013 if only doco makers could get such amazing access…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 30 Apr 2009

Gomorrah takes place in a world where decency can't take root and we can only watch in horror as crime overwhelms society's most vulnerable--…

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By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 23 Apr 2009

grinds away in documentary fashion, like relentless evil wearing on the soft hearts of the poor…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 09 Apr 2009

The characters in Gomorrah may lack an extra dramatic dimension: Garrone errs, if anything, on the side of detachment…

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By Jonathan F. Richards (111) for Film.com (1,892) on 08 Apr 2009

The sense of authenticity in this movie is palpable, but the scenes are sometimes so dark and so impenetrable that it takes a herculean effort…

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By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 27 Mar 2009

The performances are so real they don't seem like acting at all…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 24 Mar 2009

Brutal and unrelenting, this documentary-style expose of the Camorra -- the Naples equivalent of the Sicilian mafia -- burns away all hints…

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By Jan Stuart (404) for Washington Post (9,851) on 13 Mar 2009

This vibrantly disorienting cinematic import reinvents the vocabulary of the crime drama with a painterly eye and a feverish documentary style…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 13 Mar 2009

There's not much room for optimism here, given the wide-ranging influence of the Camorra, so all we can do is put our faith in the movie itself…

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By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 13 Mar 2009

There's nothing extraneous about it, nothing excessive in its violence or its art. It's as desolate as it needs to be and no more…

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