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how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
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how much it moved you
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Read from 28 comments (25 from Metacritic, 3 from TMDB reviews) — 7 of them described how it moves.
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“a lot of it felt painfully slow. There were long stretches where I just wanted the movie to pick up the pace.”
ahmetcanerkara · Metacritic ↗
“Young Toto’s friendship with Alfredo is definitely the heart of the story, and those scenes in the projection booth are the best part.”
ahmetcanerkara · Metacritic ↗
“But once Toto grows up and leaves the town, the film kind of loses me.”
ahmetcanerkara · Metacritic ↗
“the big emotional reveal with all the censored kisses spliced together is sweet, but it didn’t hit me as hard as it probably should’ve — mostly because the journey getting there felt so dragged”
ahmetcanerkara · Metacritic ↗
“One of the best film endings ever”
royalguy07 · Metacritic ↗
“most moving, particularly in the final hour”
kyle20ellis · Metacritic ↗
Read 26 Aug 2026 · confidence 41% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
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“Remain open to fantasies but not be consumed by them. These are good lessons for a would-be director. They are good lessons for everybody. And no recent movie has taught them with more patient sweetness. [Feb. 5, 1990]”
Richard Schickel, Time · 100
“Cinema Paradiso converts you to the credo that art can indeed be holy.”
Jay Scott, The Globe and Mail (Toronto) · 100
“You leave Cinema Paradiso with that feeling that's kind of like getting kicked in the stomach, but nice. It's one of those breathless, swept-away-by-a-movie experiences that you might have once a year, if you're lucky. [16 February 1990, Daily Notebook, p.E-1]”
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle · 100
“Unapologetically sentimental, this movie is certain to melt all but the hardest of hearts.”
David Mermelstein, Mr. Showbiz · 100
“It's a shining valentine to the movies--full of homages, collages and swooningly romantic Ennio Morricone music--and it gets right at the messy, impure, wondrous way they capture and enrapture us. [16 February 1990, Calendar, p.F-1]”
Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times · 100
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 23 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
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“a lot of it felt painfully slow. There were long stretches where I just wanted the movie to pick up the pace.”
ahmetcanerkaraabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“Young Toto’s friendship with Alfredo is definitely the heart of the story, and those scenes in the projection booth are the best part.”
ahmetcanerkaraabout 33–66% inread it ↗
“But once Toto grows up and leaves the town, the film kind of loses me.”
ahmetcanerkaraabout 66–100% inread it ↗
“the big emotional reveal with all the censored kisses spliced together is sweet, but it didn’t hit me as hard as it probably should’ve — mostly because the journey getting there felt so dragged”
ahmetcanerkaraabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“**Soulful** Why did it had to end... The movie was like a breath of fresh air.Every thing about it was so refreshing and soulful that you can never get bored of it.It's one of those movies that you can watch again and again and again...The music, the story, the acting, the direction, the editing, all of it makes this an absolutely beautiful gem of a movie. One of the best movies that i ever saw and will ever see not because it was any different from other movies or better written, directed or”
Shreyance Parakhread it ↗
“When you think about cinematography, nowadays you usually think about digital cinematography. But during the early '50s, '60s, and onward, there was a use of this thing called film. Film was what they used in cameras before cameras actually saved them into memory slots digitally. Projectionists actually had to crank the film projectors early on, before the automatic film projectors started coming in, otherwise the film would catch on fire. This movie is about friendship between a projectionist i”
tmdb86370050read it ↗
“**Magnificent.** I saw this movie for the first time a good few years ago, but I only decided to talk about it now, after seeing it again. For me, it is one of the best Italian films ever made. It's like a modern fairy tale, showing us the fascinating side of cinema and reminding us why we love it. Of course, everything passes, and cinema has gone through many phases, it has undergone metamorphoses, and the end of the great classic movie theaters was one of them. And now? The pandemic has sho”
Filipe Manuel Netoread it ↗
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