Youth
Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: December 4, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
Positive:
26
Mixed:
11
Negative:
4
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60
EmpirePhil de SemlyenJan 25, 2016
An Alpine study of ageing and creativity that’s as fresh and bracing as the mountain air, although occasionally just as chilly. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonDave CalhounDec 24, 2015
Visually, it’s never less than arresting. Gently amusing, too, is the relationship between Keitel and Caine, even if the dialogue Sorrentino writes for them often displays a fondness for empty epigrams. Read full review
60
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMay 23, 2015
There are lightning-flashes of pure, ornamental brilliance throughout Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth, although there’s not much happening on the landscape they illuminate. Read full review
60
CineVueJohn BleasdaleMay 23, 2015
The film is often remarkable, gorgeous even - many of the shots in Youth would make excellent closing shots, including the opening shot - and funny. It's a work of wonderful moments, but it's less than momentous and, significantly, you'll never believe a single word of it. This is a pity as the performances are excellent. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 23, 2015
Youth has a wan eloquence and elegance, though freighted with sentimentality and a strangely unearned and uninteresting macho-geriatric regret for lost time, lost film projects, lost love and all those beautiful women that you never got to sleep with. Read full review
58
The PlaylistJessica KiangMay 23, 2015
There is no shading, there is no ambiguity, and while there are observations and stilted epithets aplenty, there is precious little wisdom. Read full review
50
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenDec 24, 2015
Freighted with symbolism and beautifully mounted, Youth is dreamlike and at the same time stultifying. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. ScottDec 3, 2015
The problem with Youth is not that it’s empty — the accusation Kael and others lodged against Mr. Sorrentino’s precursors — but that it’s small. Its imagination feels shrunken and secondhand, in spite of the gorgeous vistas and beautiful naked women. Or actually, because of them. Read full review
50
The New YorkerAnthony LaneNov 30, 2015
The movie is gorgeous, as you would expect from Sorrentino, but beauty this great can lead to suffocation. The plot goes round and round and nowhere, and the highlight is a couple of blistering monologues — one from Weisz, delivered while she is cloaked in mud, and another from Jane Fonda, as an aging screen goddess, encased in her own crust of powder and Botox. Read full review
42
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerDec 4, 2015
Sorrentino’s magic is all smoke and mirrors. People calling this movie a visual feast must be awfully famished. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriDec 4, 2015
Though often beautiful, this is an emotionally paralyzed film about emotionally paralyzed people. Read full review
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