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'Gomorrah': 'Goodfellas' These Are Notnew
Gomorrah is a bleak, unrepentant crime drama that never stylizes the violence it depicts. It is at once tender and vicious.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
04-09-2009 |
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'Gomorrah' Is Too Preachy for Its Own Goodnew
In his attempt to redefine mob movies, Matteo Garrone eschews many of the qualities that make cinema interesting and tantalizing. He focuses so squarely on his characters' sinful awfulness that he forgets it's often the sinners who lure the moviegoers.
Grotesque Syndicate: 'Gomorrah'new
You'll learn a thing or two from this bleak, difficult movie about the other Italian mafia.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
03-19-2009 |
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'Gomorrah' Recognizes the Mob for What It Is: A Quiet Scourgenew
The real-life Neapolitan crime organization, known as the Camorra, is depicted here as a hovering presence above the locals, dropping down into ordinary lives only as sudden flashes of death, but otherwise reigning from above, its fearsome presence unseen but influencing every action.
Willamette Week |
Andy Davis |
02-25-2009 |
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Mafia Rules: Neapolitan Crime Syndicate Comes Up for Inspection
Roberto Saviano’s tell-all mafia expose provides rich narrative soil for director Matteo Garrone (The Embalmer - 2002) to weave together five stories of mob-related corruption sucking dry the Italian industrial province of Naples and its squalid suburbs and infecting the entire financial landscape of the European economy.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
02-09-2009 |
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