Gomorrah (Gomorra) Critic Reviews

This vibrantly disorienting cinematic import reinvents the vocabulary of the crime drama with a painterly eye and a feverish documentary style.Read the full review

Gomorrah looks grimy and sullen, and has no heroes, only victims. That is its power.Read the full review

The fingerprints of the Camorra are everywhere, this film wants us to know, and its grip is lethal.Read the full review

Both a staggering realist thriller and a jeremiad.Read the full review

This is a vision of hell conveyed in a simple, documentary style, far removed from the sumptuous American Mafia fables.Read the full review

Naples-born Servillo is a national star, famed as a theater, opera, and film director as well as an actor. And he's got the face of a mensch (or a Madoff) -- which makes his embodiment of criminal banality all the more identifiable, as well as horrifying.Read the full review

Powerful, stripped to its very essence and featuring a spectacular cast (of mostly non-professionals), Matteo Garrone's sixth feature film Gomorra goes beyond Tarrantino's gratuitous violence and even Scorsese's Hollywood sensibility in depicting the everyday reality of organized crime's foot soldiers.Read the full review

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-- women, children, law-abiding citizens, and the conscientious few who want to get out of the game.Read the full review

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 and its global understanding of how far and wide the mob's tentacles reach, from high fashion to the very dirt.Read the full review