Click here to copy URL

Padre Pio

The 100 Most Anticipated Movies of 2022

Padre Pio

2022

Abel Ferrara

Shia LaBeouf, Marco Leonardi, Luca Lionello, Asia Argento ...

5.1

Drama It follows Italian Saint Padre Pio on his early years.

	Author	Review
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"Ferrara and LaBeouf find God but lose their way (...) A film that strays too far from Ferrara's flock to seem believable"	NEG
United States	Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"'Padre Pio' is as rewarding as it is challenging"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"What a weird film it is, with an undeveloped, improvised feel, like a fragment or shard of something else (...) It is a minor film, but interesting (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Vikram Murthi IndieWire	"A dull journey to a foregone conclusion"	NEG
United Kingdom	Allan Hunter Screendaily	"Abel Ferrara combines spiritual anguish and political turmoil in a film that is for the most part restrained, serious-minded and quietly compelling. One of the director’s strongest works in recent years"	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"A dull slog, an oil-and-water hybrid of two different films, both with interesting ideas that never cohere into interesting filmmaking (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"One more idiosyncratic chapter in a compellingly erratic filmography, and intriguing as such. But it's hard to say that the strange disjunctions between premise and execution will leave most viewers with much tangible reward"	NEU
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"The movie reignites long-ago events by the spark of physical contact, and its age-old difficulties illuminate current turmoils and battles with an absolute rage that appears to be very much like the filmmaker's own"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"A dreadful piece of film-making, full of laughably inexplicable decisions (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Damon Wise Deadline	"'Padre Pio' is more restrained than a normal Ferrara joint (...) The fiery religious comment, however, is the giveaway"	NEU
	Vittoria Scarpa Cineuropa	"Communion, in suffering, between a man of God and the people is clearly the key which the director has favoured for his story, and there's no shortage of intensely dramatic moments"	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide The Guardian	"[It] misfires badly (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Marshall Shaffer SlashFilm	"[It] holds little power (...) Argento is an even more complicated figure than the film's headliner (...) The film exists primarily as a rehabilitation vehicle for its troubled actors"	NEG
United States	William Repass Slant	"Visually arresting, if disjointed (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Andy Crump Paste Magazine	"So much of the film is precisely the opposite [of watchable] (...) Ugly to the point of offending the eyes"	NEG
United States	David Katz The Film Stage	"Pleasingly, it's 100% Abel in all that his small but loyal band of admirers can cherish"	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"LaBeouf essays a rather, let's say, contemporary Pio. And completely sinks the picture"	NEG

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.