Il Divo

Village Voice by

Il Divo plays like an elegantly ritualized black comedy.

The New Yorker by Anthony Lane

Consume with great caution, and with joy.

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

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.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Liam Lacey

Fortunately, there's always the fascination of watching actor Toni Servillo, who does a brilliant job of playing Andreotti (known as Beelzebub) as a kind of devil with a clown's exterior.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

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

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

Through Sorrentino's lens, Andreotti's chief lieutenants are made to look like Reservoir Dogs, with Andreotti as a calm, tight-lipped, upper-crust analog to Lawrence Tierney.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

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

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

The highly stylized, often outrageously funny biopic is anchored by a devastating performance by Toni Servillo as Andreotti, brilliantly capturing the gnomic politician's trademark slouch and inexpressive face.