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Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Youth Without Youth is a narratively ambitious, visually sumptuous surrealist enterprise that tries to bend time and space together as neatly as the folds in an origami swan. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Coppola takes a subject that once would have made him gaga and explores it with tenderness and lucidity. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: I'm all for bold screwiness, but this provocation seems labored despite the striking images. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Mr. Coppola is one of the cinema's peerless masters, and I would have enjoyed nothing more than a chance to celebrate his new film. I'm truly sorry to say, then, that I found it impenetrable. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Meandering and often incomprehensible. Read more
Ruth Hessey, MovieTime, ABC Radio National: Youth Without Youth smacks of vanity project from the first poetic moments to the last, and whose vanity lays a stronger claim to the big screen than Francis Ford Coppola's? Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Coppola has gone uprriver again in an effort to reinvent himself and cinema in the process. He ultimately fails, but he can't be faulted for trying. Read more
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Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Ultimately, Youth Without Youth is more intriguing than it is satisfying. It hooks you, then lets you flounder. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Too much of the film is a muddle, and it feels like work, not play. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Borderline incomprehensible and often exasperatingly arty, Youth Without Youth is nevertheless a movie that, somehow, successfully conveys a great deal of heartbreak. It's a personal film in the best and worst senses. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: A terrible mess of mystical mumbo jumbo, but you have to give Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth this: It is one magnificent and interesting failure of a film. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The movie is one soporific, depressed, deadeningly vague scene after another. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: The suspicion that all this froth builds up towards nothing but some poetic imagery is inexorably realized and sours the magic of the second half of the film. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: An incomprehensible, pretentious, meandering mess -- so self-serious, it's laughable. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: There's just enough greatness scattered in Youth Without Youth to make you wonder why there can't be more. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: The year's most bizarre novelty item. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: I don't want to say this thing is complicated, but Tom Stoppard just called to beg for an explanation.... I apologize for all the elements I'm leaving out, but my editor ordered me to keep this piece under 40 million words. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Francis Ford Coppola's first film in 10 years deserves serious attention, but this massive dose of Nembutal only manages to render you too comatose to think. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Youth Without Youth is well worth seeing. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Youth Without Youth is so beautiful, in fact, that it almost transcends the epic bunkum of Coppola's script. But almost doesn't count, even when it is uttered in ancient tongues. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Youth Without Youth proves that Francis Ford Coppola can still make a movie, but not that he still knows how to choose his projects. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: While a movie doesn't have to make literal sense to be good, a filmmaker can't be so lost in his own universe that he forgets his job is to open it out to the rest of us. And that, apparently, is what has happened to Coppola here. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Youth Without Youth is lush and heartfelt, but compelling only in fits and starts. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: The movie has been labeled 'stilted,' 'soporific,' and 'a pretentious, meandering mess.' But you certainly couldn't call it conventional, predictable, or pandering. This film is stubbornly, almost insanely, itself. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Francis Ford Coppola's first movie in 10 years is a technically dazzling work, but humanly a bewildering one. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: How's this for a ringing endorsement: Watching Youth Without Youth, Francis Ford Coppola's first film in nearly a decade, is like taking a philosophy exam. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Not so much a bad movie as a dispiritingly unnecessary one (especially by a once-great director), Youth Without Youth ultimately boils down to a long, autumn stroll around the block to a place everyone winds up at some time or another. Read more
Wally Hammond, Time Out: Even ace editor Walter Murch struggles to give coherence to the professor's fractured, episodic journey through darkening wartime exile in Geneva, to the brighter revelations of '50s India and the sun-kissed Mediterranean. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: The craftsmanship is undeniably polished. It's just too bad the story is so plodding and pretentious. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: This is hardly Coppola's greatest movie, but it's far from his worst -- its bid for a new beginning is one from the heart. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Unfortunately, Youth becomes so lost in its own conceptual, convoluted vortex, it becomes virtually incomprehensible. Read more