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 "In the new release of Cinema Paradiso, the tale has turned from sweet to bittersweet, and when the tears come during that final, beautiful scene, they finally feel absolutely earned."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"This version's no classic like its predecessor, but its pleasures are still plentiful."
-- Matt Brunson, CREATIVE LOAFING
"This version moves beyond the original’s nostalgia for the communal film experiences of yesteryear to a deeper realization of cinema’s inability to stand in for true, lived experience."
-- Dan Fienberg, L.A. WEEKLY
"The heightened symmetry of this new/old Cinema Paradiso makes the film a fuller experience, like an old friend haunted by the exigencies of time."
-- Tom Keogh, SEATTLE TIMES
"The Paradiso's rusted-out ruin and ultimate collapse during the film's final (restored) third…emotionally belittle a cinema classic. Sometimes shorter is better."
-- Elias Savada, NITRATE ONLINE
"Even if the romance doesn't work for you -- granted, like life, it can be extremely maudlin -- the movie soars as a celebration of cinema and 20th-century culture."
-- Gregory Weinkauf, NEW TIMES
"A prime cut."
-- E! ONLINE
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FRESH 82%
Avg. Rating: 7.7/10 |
"Where the original release was an essay in childish delight and adolescent longing, topped off by a muted coda implying that you really can go home again, the reissue is a fully realized epic of the heart."
-- Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE
"I'm happy to have seen it -- not as an alternate version, but as the ultimate exercise in viewing deleted scenes."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"The new version isn't just endless. It heightens the deeply conservative spirit of Giuseppe Tornatore's fable in a surprising new way."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"In the director's cut, the film is not only a love song to the movies but it also is more fully an example of the kind of lush, all-enveloping movie experience it rhapsodizes."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"More romantic, more emotional and ultimately more satisfying than the teary-eyed original."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"Still rapturous after all these years, Cinema Paradiso stands as one of the great films about movie love."
-- Ann Hornaday, WASHINGTON POST
 "This director's cut -- which adds 51 minutes -- takes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap opera."
-- Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"The film's final hour, where nearly all the previous unseen material resides, is unconvincing soap opera that Tornatore was right to cut."
-- Terry Lawson, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"Less front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour version released here in 1990."
-- Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"As it turns out, you can go home again."
-- Chris Vognar, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"I don't think most of the people who loved the 1989 Paradiso will prefer this new version. But I do."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
-- Click to read the article.
-- ARIZONA REPUBLIC
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Cinema Paradiso Director's Cut" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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