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Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly: It's well acted and gorgeously and tenebrously shot. Read more
Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: Swift and often compelling, it's also blessedly unbiased. Read more
Jay Weissberg, Variety: Itself the object of political wrangling, Beauty has numerous scenes of enormous power, though removing one unnecessary plot strand would allow deeper probing elsewhere. Read more
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: Though the movie eschews facile sloganeering, few of its characters or narrative threads are able to develop beyond their function as metaphors. Read more
Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter: With typical intelligence and complexity, director Marco Bellocchio weaves three stories around the politically hot topic of euthanasia, turning a real-life Italian national drama into engrossing narrative for sophisticated audiences. Read more
Mark Jenkins, NPR: Unlike most movies that rely on TV-news reports to drive the story, Dormant Beauty is complex and humane, and never shrinks to mere spectacle. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: If "Dormant Beauty" does not rank among Mr. Bellocchio's best movies, it nonetheless still occasionally shows him at his best. Read more
Michael Sragow, Orange County Register: The film pits their honest passion against the stylized desperation of the actress' religious theater and the decadent hollowness of Berlusconi's political theater. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice: Don't let this one slip through your fingers. Read more