La Grazia
MUBI | Release Date: December 5, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
18
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The Irish TimesTara BradyMar 20, 2026
Sorrentino supplies the occasional surreal house-style flourish – a drifting tear observed in zero gravity – but mostly the director leans into the quiet complexities of Servillo’s turn. Read full review
90
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithDec 5, 2025
The film honors maturity and all its weighty deliberations without putting a sheen of sentimentality on the condition. Read full review
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriAug 29, 2025
The unknowability of life is beautiful, but so too is our desire to know. To be human, La Grazia seems to say, is to fight and lose against uncertainty, and then to fight and lose some more. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyAug 27, 2025
By the director’s standards, this is a sober and distinctly mature film, centered by the unwavering composure of Servillo’s De Santis. But it’s not without the customary creative arias, the witty humor and visual delights that have distinguished Sorrentino’s best work. Read full review
85
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiAug 27, 2025
The magic of La grazia is that Paolo Sorrentino makes a convincing argument that doubt is a beautiful thing.
80
Time OutPhil de SemlyenMar 23, 2026
Sorrentino explores these heavyweight themes with his usual wit and high style – as well as a standout soundtrack of haunting classic cues and Eurodance bangers. Surreal, comedic touches also prick the pomposity of La Grazia’s cloistered world. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleDec 15, 2025
Most assuredly, though, this is a duo of director and star once more moving in concert together, maybe not as confidently as with some previous efforts, but with a knowing intelligence. Read full review
80
The TimesKevin MaherAug 27, 2025
La grazia is wonderful. It is slow initially and sometimes difficult but it gradually, seductively seeps into you and becomes near impossible to shake. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawAug 27, 2025
Maybe this film, concluding as it does on a distinctive note of euphoric sentimentality, does not add up to quite as much as the director thinks; but it intrigues, it exhilarates and it shows that Sorrentino is Italian cinema’s heir to Antonioni. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyDec 5, 2025
Sorrentino and cinematographer Daria D’Antonio color coordinate each and every frame to a fare-thee-well. Even scenes set in an Italian prison have real visual flair. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubTim GriersonDec 2, 2025
La Grazia salutes simple, humble decency, and writer-director Paolo Sorrentino follows the example of his protagonist, largely avoiding the usual array of visual flourishes that have marked his previous collaborations with Servillo. The result is a decidedly reflective film that’s among the director’s most affecting. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineTaylor WilliamsOct 15, 2025
The relative restraint of La Grazia makes its baroque flourishes stand out all the more. Read full review
75
The PlaylistMarshall ShafferAug 27, 2025
La Grazia embodies much of the Sorrentino appeal, even if it registers in more of a minor key for the Italian auteur. The film is playful when it wants to be and pensive when it needs to be. Read full review
70
The New York TimesManohla DargisDec 4, 2025
It’s enjoyable to be back in Sorrentino’s richly detailed and stylized universe, with all its enchantments and individualized, warm-blooded characters. Read full review
70
Next Best PictureJosh ParhamAug 30, 2025
It’s a tender examination, sometimes not fully formed but always with provocative ideas to unearth. Read full review
70
VarietyOwen GleibermanAug 27, 2025
The movie will not exactly set your pulse racing. It’s staid. But there’s a hum of inspiration to its meditation. Read full review
70
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyAug 27, 2025
What gives the film its emotional continuity is a commandingly downbeat performance from Servillo. Read full review
67
The Film StageZhuo-Ning SuAug 27, 2025
The style-substance ratio here is still not ideal, but the film offers enough of both for an appealing, intellectually, and emotionally tickling experience. Read full review
50
IONCINEMA.comNicholas BellDec 5, 2025
Certainly, Sorrentino does ask questions worth pondering. But the corresponding answers are often monosyllabic. Read full review
50
IndieWireDavid EhrlichAug 27, 2025
Style has always been the vehicle for his substance, and while it’s easy to imagine why an overdone misstep like “Parthenope” might inspire Sorrentino to rein things in a bit for his next feature, it’s funny that said feature turned out to be the story of a man who threatens to unravel from self-doubt at the height of his power. Read full review
40
Little White LiesDavid JenkinsMar 19, 2026
If Sorrentino has a special power as a filmmaker, it’s his ability to draw the very best out of Servillo in any type of terrain, and it’s this wholly committed and natural lead performance which holds together an otherwise slipshod and fatally schematic tale how the cold realities of life and death can feed into the process of politics. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinAug 28, 2025
Perhaps La Grazia is enjoyed best as a more optimistic B-side to either Il Divo or Loro, Sorrentino’s lewd and scurrilous biopics of the former Italian prime ministers Giulio Andreotti and Silvio Berlusconi – both of which, incidentally, were also played by Servillo. But I know which ones I’d rather put on for fun. Read full review
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