Comandante
Dark Star Pictures | Release Date: TBA CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
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Mixed or average reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Mixed:
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Critic Reviews

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TheWrapBen CrollAug 30, 2023
Though he finds little room for subtlety and even less interest in complex moral shadings, director Edoardo De Angelis can still ably wring tension from this brave, if foolhardy, mission, spinning his camera around ever-cramped quarters as the two crews, enemies-turned-shipmates, navigate uncharted terrain. Read full review
50
Screen DailyLee MarshallAug 30, 2023
Comandante is a film designed to make Italians feel good about being Italian – about pasta, sentimental songs and strongly demarcated gender roles – while also telling them how to be good Italians – chiefly by saving people at sea, not blindly following orders and getting on with other Italians whose dialects they don’t understand. Read full review
50
VarietyOwen GleibermanAug 30, 2023
If the characters, apart from Salvatore, had been more developed, there might be more drama to it, but Comandante, in its honorable and slightly gloomy way, has been conceived as the delivery system for a humanitarian message. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerAug 30, 2023
While De Angelis knows how to create visceral action and moments of intensity, he’s incapable of the slightest hint of subtlety. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinAug 30, 2023
It offers a selection of sweaty, string-vesty, bulgy-bare-armsy scenes from the life of the real-life submarine commander Salvatore Todaro, played here by Pierfranceso Favino. It isn’t dreadful. Read full review
40
The GuardianCatherine BrayAug 30, 2023
De Angelis offers some muscular film-making, with decent action sequences. Read full review
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