The Many Saints of Newark - Kritiken

...atmospheric and compelling, with a performance from Alessandro Nivola that finds that sweet spot where male emotional vulnerability turns into toxicity.

Go ahead, arrange a sitdown: This darkly funny and ultra-violent film perfectly depicts the 1960s times and voices that shaped Tony into a made man.

...gets the Italian mafia drama right with Dickie Moltisanti’s narrative at the forefront, led by a superb performance by Alessandro Nivola.

...offers an alluring glimpse into Tony Soprano’s birth under a bad sign...

...digs into the lives of all-new characters, who fortunately make for compelling company.

...key to the film’s success is how deftly it establishes the world of explosive violence and easy money to which he will ultimately be swayed.

...for a hundred-something minutes, it feels close enough to coming home again.

...for all the ugliness of attitudes and hair-trigger violence, it’s a thrilling, seedily glamorous world to visit.

Young Tony is portrayed with goosebump-inducing deja vu by Michael Gandolfini, son of the late James Gandolfini...

Casting Vera Farmiga as Tony’s bitter-from-birth mother (...) is the film’s master stroke.

Hela filmen är en tillbakablick till 60-talets New Jersey. Den framtida maffiabossen Tony Soprano är tonåring och spelas med ett charmigt flin av den framlidne James Gandolfinis son.

...räddas av gudalik Nivola.

En film, der først og fremmest vil give fansene det, de vil have.

Sinewy and smart, it’s a rich imaginative leap into the pre-history of an iconic show, and a rare instance of the big screen doing right by the small.