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Full of brilliantly executed coups de théâtre, showing the director's natural flair for spectacle.Full Review

Dana Stevens
The New York Times

It was this ineffably poignant semiautobiographical reverie that unleashed fully Fellini's shimmering, flowing poetic style, echoed perfectly in a plaintive score by Fellini's potently evocative collaborator, Nino Rota.Full Review

Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times

One of the screen's great portrayals of the hell-raising and malaise of young men in their 20s, hit Italy like a comic thunderbolt when it was released there in 1953 -- and it struck the American art-house audience in much the same way when it premiered here in 1956. Now it returns, and unlike its five aging-boy protagonists, this movie hasn't lost its first youth.Full Review

Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune

Its elements all come together with an unforced perfection, every scene feels real and alive in a way that many of his more surrealistic later films do not, and Leonard Maltin, for one, has argued that I Vitelloni is no less than Fellini's masterpiece.Full Review

William Arnold
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

It’s as wistful and sad as it is funny and charming, with the first of Nino Rota’s great scores to keep it burbling along.Full Review

Kim Newman
Empire
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