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Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Relentlessly cleareyed instead of shamelessly manipulative, and it builds to an emotional crescendo that brings to mind the finales of the Neo-Realist classics. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: Funny as it is sobering. Read more
Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News: A well-crafted, provocative film by one of Italy's consummate screen artists. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Flushed with emotion and a buoyant earthy humor, Malena is a yarn that sticks with you. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Makes something wistful, enduring and even optimistic out of humanity's basest instincts. Read more
Paul Tatara, CNN.com: Like Malena herself, the movie ends up nothing more than a great-looking mess. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: The film lacks a focused, compelling narrative -- perhaps because Tornatore is trying to manufacture a hit by juggling story elements more forced and manipulative than felt. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: [Bellucci] has presence, maybe even talent, but you wish that Malena's inner life had been given as much accent as her outer charms. Read more
Houston Chronicle: The result is like a bad novel in which the personalities and feelings of the characters are described to us rather than revealed through what they do. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: The balance between broad ribaldry and gritty tragedy is so off-kilter that you really don't care what life lessons Renato has learned in the end. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: [Bellucci's] role is not so much dramatic as pictorial (a word I am using in the Playboy sense). Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: [Tornatore] eludes sentimentality with a romantic vision wide enough to embrace the range of human experience. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: Bereft of the more richly textured sentiments of Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso. Read more
David Rooney, Variety: Despite Bellucci's strong presence in a role with little dialogue, the central character never really comes alive in any way interesting enough to give her ordeal much genuine pathos. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: More cringesome than cute. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: [Malena is] Renato's -- and Tornatore's -- sex fantasy, never a flesh-and-blood woman. Read more