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By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Nov 2013

A lovely but rambling excursion through moneyed Rome, the film can’t have remotely the same impact as its predecessor, but it does offer…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 13 Nov 2013

A virtuosic cinematic achievement of epic proportions, Paolo Sorrentino's formalized comment on modern-day Rome is a visual and satirical feast…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for honeycuttshollywood.com (375) on 13 Nov 2013

The Great Beauty soars into that rarified atmosphere where art, entertainment, travelogue and circus collide in a great, beautiful mash-up…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 13 Nov 2013

Little beyond Servillo’s presence gives the film any ballast, which is both asset and liability, freeing Sorrentino to pepper the screen…

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

There's little sense in trying to resist the film's relentless boogie-woogie party vibe, its tumultuous visual banquet, its unpredictable sense…

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By David Fear (910) for Time Out (7,510) on 12 Nov 2013

If Marcello Mastroianni’s character from La Dolce Vita hadn’t stepped off the sweet-life treadmill, this is exactly who he would have become…

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By Will Chadwick (30) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 12 Nov 2013

Beneath the beautiful surface and indulgence of Sorrentino's The Great Beauty, there is an insightful, intriguing satire about what it means…

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By Marco Grosoli (1) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 12 Nov 2013

In blatant reference to La dolce vita, The Great Beauty is an apt if lazily postmodern response to Fellini's question: how can we convert nihilism…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Nov 2013

Paolo Sorrentino's film is really just a huge turn-on that has the bad manners to go sour, succumbing to its own self-delusions of moral/political…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for Film.com (1,892) on 21 Oct 2013

Gambardella’s world-weary look back at his sweet life, eclipsed by his turning sixty-five, is a dizzying fantasia of flash and filigree,…

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By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 08 Sep 2013

The Il Divo director returns to his native Rome for an exquisite blowout set amidst the ageing dilettantes living in the city's prosperous…

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By Mark Kermode (1,002) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 08 Sep 2013

As always, Sorrentino has an architectural eye, his cameras panning over crumbling buildings, unclothed bodies and (most importantly) Servillo's…

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By Damon Wise (265) for Radio Times (2,421) on 05 Sep 2013

A VIP tour of a secret, horribly fashionable world that one wouldn't want to linger in yet can't help but find fascinating…

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By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 05 Sep 2013

The city looks good enough to dive into. If only the humans in the frame weren't so shallow…

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By Nigel Floyd (230) for Film4 (1,522) on 05 Sep 2013

An eye-ravishing meditation on first love, squandered talent, the eternal beauty of Rome and a life wasted on hedonistic excess…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for ViewLondon (2,339) on 04 Sep 2013

Stylishly directed and beautifully shot, The Great Beauty is an emotionally engaging and superbly acted Italian drama that plays like a modern…

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By Christopher Tookey (761) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 04 Sep 2013

Writer-director Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo) is a master of cinematic imagery, even if his plots leave a great deal to be desired…

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By Ryan Gilbey (367) for New Statesman (382) on 04 Sep 2013

Sorrentino's film is both emphatic and proportionate in its methods - a palpable maturing for this director…

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By Paul Fairclough (10) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 04 Sep 2013

A simply breathtaking work of art with a very human, intensely cinematic heart…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for The List (2,018) on 03 Sep 2013

It lingers in the imagination long after more disciplined, well-behaved films have faded…

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