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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 18 Feb 2009

Naples-born Servillo is a national star, famed as a theater, opera, and film director as well as an actor…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for New Yorker (1,403) on 17 Feb 2009

The result demands a patient viewing, and maybe more than one; only after a second dose did I get the measure of Garrone's mastery, and realize…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 13 Feb 2009

The malignity can be oppressive -- this is a far cry from Fellini finding poignant uplift in the slums -- but the dramatic structure is complex,…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for New York Times (5,786) on 13 Feb 2009

Part of what's bracing about Gomorrah, and makes it feel different from so many American crime movies, is both its deadly serious take on violence…

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By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 12 Feb 2009

As even-toned as a documentary, it plays like the Short Cuts of Sicily; we're not sure who we're watching or why, but by the bloody end we're…

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By Chris Farnsworth (29) for E! Online (838) on 12 Feb 2009

A dull repeat of The Sopranos, only without any character development…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 12 Feb 2009

This film never feels like copycat Americana to me…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 12 Feb 2009

It's alert, superior directorial work from Garrone, who, perhaps not even realizing it, has redefined the nature of the mob genre…

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By Phil Hall (302) for Film Threat (5,156) on 12 Feb 2009

Where's Bobby and Marty when you really need them…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Feb 2009

Given the breadth of the story, the characters never achieve much depth, but they're part of a larger pattern: the younger ones are eager to…

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By Andrew Sarris (502) for New York Observer (1,400) on 04 Feb 2009

A very localized canvas of the 'criminal empire' with five interwoven strands of the narrative, each one leading to the same fatalistic ending,…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 29 Jan 2009

[Makes] brilliant use of seemingly endless array of run-down and abandoned buildings and spaces…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 28 Jan 2009

As a result of the hardhitting, unflinching and accurate story, the author went into hiding after threats and is now under police protection…

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By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 26 Jan 2009

Matteo Garrone's provocative film fictionalizes the bleak, horrifying tales of ordinary people swept into the businesses of the Camorra, while…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 06 Jan 2009

while [the] experience may often seem like viewing a crowd from a moving merry-go-round, one cannot help but be left with a sense of overwhelming…

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By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 03 Jan 2009

The biblical Gomorrah was a stinkhole of depravity and corruption. Well, god took care of that one…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 31 Dec 2008

Avoiding the conventions of gangster movies, it presents a slice of the ghastly reality of life in the crime-infested areas of Naples that…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Antagony & Ecstasy (1,911) on 21 Dec 2008

An unusually thought-provoking, annoying, difficult and ultimately unique work that might not be one of the year's best, but is surely among…

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By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 19 Dec 2008

[T]here's nothing here to draw us in -- nothing particularly interesting or engaging about the stories or the characters…

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By Bill Gibron (1,013) for PopMatters (2,617) on 19 Dec 2008

Tinsel Town can indeed be blamed for making such 'made' man movies compelling…

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