Good Morning, Night
Wellspring Media | Release Date: November 11, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Combining a thoughtful script with splendid acting -- especially by Sansa -- Bellocchio has fashioned a tense thriller that is both understated and powerful. Read full review
80
VarietyDavid Rooney
Numerous filmmakers have attempted to dramatize the terrorist activity that gripped Italy in the 1970s, but few have done so with the unsettling power of Marco Bellocchio's Good Morning, Night. Read full review
80
The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
Bellochio, who began his career in 1965, has made some of the most trenchant Italian films on political themes, and Good Morning, Night is one more of them. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
It's a thoughtful and ultimately chilling take on a tragedy that still has the power to disturb and divide. Read full review
70
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Bellocchio's film, which enlivens the grim realities of months in a stuffy apartment with striking bursts of lyricism, is often a powerful cautionary tale about the dangers of becoming a slave to ideology. Read full review
70
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Like its oxymoronic title, Good Morning, Night is sober yet filled with fancy. There's a wistful aspect to the movie. Read full review
70
The New York TimesDana Stevens
At times Good Morning, Night feels as claustrophobic as the apartment itself, and you may feel that the director is handling his volatile material with a bit too much delicacy. But the movie's atmosphere is a curious mixture of obliqueness and intensity. Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
It's a strange and murky movie, at times a frustrating one, but I also found it profoundly moving in a way no regular thriller ever is. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Though he doesn't possess the dangerous confusion of his tragically misguided heroes, veteran director Marco Bellocchio does share their capacity for raising thought-provoking points that end in an ineffectual tangle. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The writer-director's inquiry into this tragedy makes for a moving and intelligent film, but the dark story never feels fully realized. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
It has been called both detached and loaded, unfairly slanted as well as balanced by some of its critics--I can only testify that I found the film both troubling and absorbing over two separate viewings. Read full review
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