Il Divo Critic Reviews

An intensely political film so wildly inventive and witty that it will become a touchstone for years to come, Il Divo is a masterpiece for maverick helmer-scribe Paolo Sorrentino.Read the full review

You need know nothing about Italian politics to completely enjoy the fantastical, Fellini-fied, tragi-comic, biographical fun-for-all Il Divo.Read the full review

Simultaneously exhilarating and confounding, dazzling and confusing, this is filmmaking of such verve and style that you likely won't care that you can't follow it completely.Read the full review

The frequently outrageous Il Divo follows the career of one of the best-known and most tenacious figures in Italian political history in a lively, sensory-overload, cartoonlike fashion reminiscent of "Amelie" and "Moulin Rouge." The fact that it's often over-the-top goes with saying, and is part of the fun.Read the full review

The film proceeds like a black comedy version of "The Godfather," crossed with Oliver Stone’s "Nixon."Read the full review

As operatic cinema, it ranks alongside the best of Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.Read the full review

We see the tormented, limited and potentially dangerous man underneath.Read the full review

Il Divo is showboat moviemaking, but the opulence is of a piece with the film's damning assessment of the durable Italian elder statesman Giulio Andreotti.Read the full review