Fading Gigolo
Millennium Entertainment | Release Date: April 18, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
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Mixed or average reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
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19
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16
Negative:
3
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83
Entertainment WeeklySabrina McFarlandApr 9, 2014
He (Turturro) lands a three-way with two eager ladies (Sharon Stone and Sofia Vergara), but it’s his platonic meet-up with a lonely Hasidic widow (Vanessa Paradis) that establishes the deepest bond. Read full review
80
NPRBob MondelloApr 26, 2014
Turturro's direction owes a little something to Spike Lee, and a lot to Allen, who reportedly had a hand in helping refine the script — certainly his own lines sound as if he's simply riffing in character. Together they succeed in keeping the mood light, even as the filmmaker is gently tugging the plot in other directions — to look at loneliness, and longing, and heartbreak. Read full review
80
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekApr 16, 2014
Fading Gigolo is a breeze, enjoyable both for its sweetness and its unapologetic silliness. Read full review
80
Time OutJoshua RothkopfApr 15, 2014
Turturro, writing and directing in a register light-years from his nebbishy turn in "Barton Fink," has a more sensual NYC indie in mind. Read full review
80
VarietyPeter DebrugeSep 15, 2013
John Turturro brings sensitivity and intelligence to a subject that could have gone terribly awry in Fading Gigolo. Read full review
80
The GuardianCatherine ShoardSep 15, 2013
Turturro has given Allen his biggest and best on-screen turn in years: the part was written for him and it's full of scope for amiable kvetching and nimble slapstick. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Adam NaymanMay 22, 2014
The preposterousness of this plot marks Fading Gigolo as a vanity project, but it’s hard to take Turturro too much to task when he hits so many other grace notes in between blowing his own horn. Read full review
75
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanMay 8, 2014
Fading Gigolo, a movie as slight and tender as its leading character, leaves you feeling you’ve just seen one of the few Woody Allen movies Allen didn’t write or direct. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerDavid HiltbrandMay 2, 2014
This is a very New York film with a distinctly vintage atmosphere thanks to the sepia tint and cool jazz that plays throughout scenes - and sometimes over the dialogue. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMay 1, 2014
In Fading Gigolo, writer-director John Turturro turns what could have easily been a crass and unpleasant comedy into something soulful and substantial — with a lot of laughs, too. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinApr 18, 2014
What hallucinogen was Turturro on when he came up with this plot? It’s so crazy that it’s … fun. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyApr 17, 2014
While Fading Gigolo periodically threatens to come apart at the seams, it is Turturro's most disciplined and delightful work yet. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthySep 15, 2013
Fading Gigolo features enough strange narrative turns and modest laughs, not to mention a substantial role for Woody Allen as a very unlikely pimp, to provide a measure of curiosity value. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubBen KenigsbergApr 16, 2014
Fading Gigolo is not an entirely coherent film. It is, for the right and wrong reasons, a distinctive and memorable one. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsMay 8, 2014
Fading Gigolo is like two different movies on an awkward blind date at a jazz club. While Allen charms us with a parody of “Broadway Danny Rose,” Turturro is off-key in his lounge-lizard riff on “The Piano.” Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMay 5, 2014
A quirky romantic comedy that suffers from a rare cinematic malady: it's too short. Read full review
63
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMay 1, 2014
There’s a far more interesting movie taking place alongside this more than slightly silly one. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyApr 18, 2014
As an actor, John Turturro is a stalwart, alert, engaging character player. As a writer/director, he’s one of the quirkiest, hit-and-miss narrative moviemakers around. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia PuigApr 17, 2014
The breezy and sometime absurd Fading Gigolo is reminiscent of vintage Italian films and early Woody Allen movies. Read full review
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