Metacritic Movie Ratings
Golden Door Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 80

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano

  Beautiful, spacey, trans-oceanic odyssey.

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• 80

  out of 100

  Variety

  An imaginative, intelligent and attractive Italo pic precisely when the country needs it most, Emanuele Crialese's Golden Door reps a solid piece of cinema that neither panders nor preaches.

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• 80

  out of 100

  The New York TimesA.O. Scott

  What makes Mr. Crialese's telling unusual, apart from the gorgeousness of his wide-screen compositions, is that his emphasis is on departure and transition, rather than arrival.

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• 80

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

  After countless films in which immigration plays a central role -- one of the earliest was Charlie Chaplin's 1917 silent classic "The Immigrant" while one of the best, Jan Troell's "The Emigrants," has never migrated to DVD -- you'd think the canon was essentially complete. Yet this visionary work adds to it by combining harsh realities with magic-realist fantasies.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Entertainment Weekly

  A sluggish procedural on what it was like to make the journey to Ellis Island back in the day.

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