Youth Without Youth
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: December 14, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
14
Negative:
6
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60
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
Ultimately, Youth Without Youth is more intriguing than it is satisfying. It hooks you, then lets you flounder. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
In the context of Coppola's life and career, the film has a searching intelligence and ambition that can't be entirely dismissed; with his own money and nobody looking over his shoulder, Coppola has gone uprriver again in an effort to reinvent himself and cinema in the process. He ultimately fails, but he can't be faulted for trying. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
An ambitious but mind-numbingly tedious and often incomprehensible film. Read full review
50
New York PostKyle Smith
I understood two words of Youth Without Youth: "The End." Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Lush and heartfelt, but compelling only in fits and starts. Read full review
50
SlateDana Stevens
A vast, lumbering white elephant of a movie--but I sort of love it. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Coppola's awkward screenplay never finds its tone -- or perhaps it deliberately evokes the pulp conventions of WWII adventures, horror films, weepy melodrama, psychological mysteries and superhero origin stories as a way of evoking the fundamental artificiality of the cinema. Either way, it never comes together into a cohesive whole, and is seriously undermined by Roth's morose performance. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy Burr
At its best, the movie's crazy in unexpected and poetic ways; at its worst, merely preposterous. Read full review
40
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Unfortunately, "Youth" becomes so lost in its own conceptual, convoluted vortex, it becomes virtually incomprehensible. Coppola proves that even the best of our film artists can lose sight of what this medium is all about: entertaining, enlightening and including its audience. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterRay Bennett
Lacking coherence and suspense, the picture is likely to attract a cult following while disappointing Coppola's fan base. Read full review
40
VarietyJay Weissberg
Attempting to harness multiple genres, pic is brought down by ponderous dialogue (much of it dubbed) and an inability to connect with its characters. Read full review
40
EmpireKim Newman
Not quite a complete write-off, but basically a folly. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
The essence of Youth Without Youth, which was shot -- luminously -- in Romania, lies in its solemn speculations about aging, time and consciousness. Mr. Coppola is one of the cinema's peerless masters, and I would have enjoyed nothing more than a chance to celebrate his new film. I'm truly sorry to say, then, that I found it impenetrable. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
I'm all for bold screwiness, but this provocation seems labored despite the striking images. Read full review
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