Malena Critic Reviews

Qualifies as director Giuseppe Tornatore's second full-fledged masterpiece. His first: "Cinema Paradiso."Read the full review

Malena the film is as beautiful and seductive as its heroine, with its ravishing Lajos Koltai cinematography and sweepingly romantic Ennio Morricone score.Read the full review

Nothing new here except model-turned-actress Bellucci. To call her noteworthy would be an understatement.Read the full review

What begins as a blushing, priapic opera buffa about coming of age turns into a verismo shocker, before softening into something mellower.Read the full review

You wish that Malena's inner life had been given as much accent as her outer charms.Read the full review

There's definitely some paradiso in watching Malena walking, but not enough to sustain almost two hours of cinema.Read the full review

There is noting quite so awkward as a film that is one thing while it pretends to be another.Read the full review

Combining a coming-of-age story with the sad odyssey of a woman punished for her beauty, the film ultimately has too little depth, subtlety, thematic consequence or contemporary relevance.Read the full review