Tetro

Tetro is one of the more complex and realistic character studies to come out this summer, or let alone this year so far. The film has a slower pace and there is not a lot of action and it is very... Full review

A local film critic labeled this film "asinine" and as I came to mistrust this critic in the past I went to see the movie despite. As I live in Las Vegas, movies which do not deal with a lot of... Full review

Tetro, shows an extremely personal touch and seemingly is more the result of an up-and-comer than a proved auteur. While the film itself may be laboriously slow and somewhat of a chore to sit through its entirety, one cannot deny the... Full review

I am not a film major. Hell I've never even been to college. Through my horrible grammar and misspellings, you will take note of how I even barely got through high school. There are films out there that have puzzled me... Full review

Visually outstanding with a great plot. Excellent use of vibrant color contrasts to enhance the method of storytelling. A unique plot that keeps you constantly engaged. Best movie in the last 12 months!... Full review

Tetro may be the "best" film Francis Ford Coppola has made in twenty-five years. Whether this speaks more to the quality of his present state of direction as an artist or on the relative hits and misses of his career in... Full review

Thousand of miles away from Hollywood, the great Francis Coppola confronts something personal as a human being as well as a filmmaker. The story a young man looking for his older brother under the crippling shadow of a famous father. Hummm.... Full review

As a lover of Coppola's Great films, I'll watch anything he does, no matter how many misfires he produces. And I hate to admit it, but for me, Tetro was a complete misfire. I'm actually surprised at all the strong reviews... Full review

This was a total dissapointment. The story is somewhat predictable, the characters are non believable. The filming is great. I do not recommend it.... Full review

This is one of those small gems that makes the art cinema circuit rather unnoticed and neglected. It is certainly not of the caliber of the Argentinean classic "The Official Story" one of my all time favorites but it is a... Full review

Tetro is deeply flawed, messily structured and not entirely satisfying.... ... Full Review

Tetro is deeply flawed, messily structured and not entirely satisfying.... ... Full Review

sums up the paradoxical allure of this film:....The ravaged Gallo and the lost, fresh-faced Ehrenreich provide startlingly eloquent images of, respectively, squandered promise and innocence on the brink of experience.....And he's shot them the way Williams' favorite director, Elia Kazan , would have done it:....an experimental film from Francis Ford Coppola that has the sizzle and vim of his great narrative work..... ... Full Review

In Tetro, it is the seductive power of artistic genius and fame that will both leave a family broken and bind its wounds.....That is how the conversation between the long-estranged brothers of Tetro begins in Francis Ford Coppola's haunting, beautiful and often frustrating new film..... ... Full Review

However, the film is enjoyable as another verse in a long career that often resembles poetic verse more than straightforward filmmaking.....Secondly, he can evoke amazing performances.....an Oedipal story as simple as anything ever told on film..... ... Full Review

MUST-SEE: Tetro, 2 p. m. at Eau Claire Market. Iconic director Francis Ford Coppola, the man behind The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, gets personal in this film, in which he wrote (the first time he's done so in 30 years),... ... Full Article

Francis Ford Coppola always had an eye for casting. Paramount wanted Robert Redford for Michael Corleone in The Godfather . Aghast, Coppola surreptitiously filmed Michael's scenes with an unknown, Al Pacino, gambling the studio would be won over. ... Full Article

Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro (16 screens) has been lurking on a few arthouse screens all summer, pulling in less than half a million dollars to date, and earning mostly lukewarm reviews from the handful of critics that bothered to see... ... Full Article

Francis Ford Coppola's new film, "Tetro," glows with confidence, even as it wanders into strange waters. It's the work of a mature filmmaker who's unafraid to make bold decisions. ... Full Article

Verdu has been honoured with the award for work over the past year and half, including roles in Francis Ford Coppola's drama Tetro , and Jose Luis Cuerda's Spanish Second World War film The Blind Sunflowers , which picked up... ... Full Article

Were it some unknown director's first movie or some great director's last, Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro'' would be either auspicious or loosely august. But alas, Coppola, who at 70 seems far from his beginnings and not terribly close to the... ... Full Article