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By David Parkinson (764) for Radio Times (2,421) on 22 Mar 2013

Garrone's critique of Italy's current cultural vapidity is too indulgently affectionate and lacks both originality and bite…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 22 Mar 2013

A handsomely crafted film but one that already feels dated…

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By Derek Malcolm (772) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 22 Mar 2013

The film falls on its own sword by creating a dish that is more than a little overcooked, though even a cursory glance at Italian television…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 21 Mar 2013

This satire of the media's seductive power in Italian culture was the most eagerly awaited event in Cannes Film Fest, due to the fact that…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 21 Mar 2013

The story lollops along, as old-fashioned as Neo-realism, as targeted in its satire as a mutt questing for a lost bone…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 21 Mar 2013

It wants celebrity culture to be understood as the new religion: a worshipping of false idols…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for ViewLondon (2,339) on 20 Mar 2013

Well made and sharply observed, this is an engaging and bittersweet comedy-drama anchored by a terrific performance by Aniello Arena…

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By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Film4 (1,522) on 20 Mar 2013

It is a strictly one-note parable…

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By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 15 Mar 2013

The effect of watching this beautifully crafted and sincere film about desire run amok is virtually hypnotic, thanks to the long gilding takes…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 15 Mar 2013

[Arena's] feverish urgency matches his character's, right up through the movie's dreamlike final scene…

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By Craig Seligman (44) for Bloomberg News (117) on 15 Mar 2013

It's an original: freakishly cheerful and bright -- the colors of dementia…

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By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 Mar 2013

While it's great to look at, Reality is an empty shell…

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By Avi Offer (997) for NYC Movie Guru (997) on 14 Mar 2013

A bold, outrageously funny and provocative satire. Garrone deftly blends the real with the surreal…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for New York Times (5,786) on 14 Mar 2013

Reality is a story about one man’s desire to make it big on the small screen, and something of a familiar exploration of the blurring between…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Mar 2013

His outrageous, self-destructive journey lands him in a place just as ironic as Rupert Pupkin’s in The King Of Comedy, but it’s haunting…

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By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Mar 2013

Garrone's film grows in your head afterward, making royal hash out of a cultural paradigm we'll be loath to remember years from now—if, by…

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By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Mar 2013

Matteo Garrone has a sure eye for outlandish set pieces that exhibit the expansive outlines of his ideas, but these spectacles are sporadic,…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 07 Mar 2013

Effective as both satire and drama about a man who is so convinced he is about to become a celeb that he loses touch with reality…

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By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 07 Feb 2013

Spoofing the pernicious effects of television, especially the so-called reality genre, doesn't require pinpoint aim, and at times Luciano seems…

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By Craig Skinner (25) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 18 Oct 2012

As shallow as the televisual waste matter that provides its subject Reality is a well made but often empty effort from Garrone…

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