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The Best of Youth Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 5.0
    89

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Universal acclaim
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 100

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Like a great novel from a more expansive bygone age, The Best of Youth is full of big thoughts; like a great soap opera, it's also full of sharp plot turns, vibrant characters, and great talk. It is, in short, the best of cinema.

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  • 100

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    Those who see it will, quite frankly, not believe their luck. It is that satisfying, that engrossing, that good.

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  • 100

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    It is a luxury to be enveloped in a good film.

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  • 100

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

    A major cinema event of the year, a masterpiece of Italian film traditions in social/political realism and historical family epic.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    The New York Times Dana Stevens

    Full of nuance and complexity, but it is also as accessible and engrossing as a grand 19th-century novel.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

    Lo Cascio and Boni inhabit their roles with keen intellectual and emotional vigor.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Variety Scott Foundas

    At nearly six hours, pic's extreme length lets Giordana and screenwriters Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli build up a novelistic rhythm, pulling the audience so deeply and forcefully into their story that it becomes like a enveloping dream; when it's over, parting with the characters is truly sweet and sorrowful.

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