Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Un’occasione colta solo a metà.
- Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
- Jesse Cataldo @ Slant Magazine
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: works on multiple levels and Arena, who worked within a prison release arrangement while serving a life sentence, creates an indelible, sad character.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Italian satire amusingly sends up our obsession with reality TV, but not in a wholly satisfying way.
- Matthew McKernan @ FilmWhinge
- Excerpt: Reality proves to be unexpectedly likeable and kind-hearted, an insight into a man who becomes obsessed with celebrity, which aims for universal truths rather than easy targets. Against expectation, it makes you care.
- Bev Questad @ It’s Just Movies
- Excerpt: “Reality” is about one man who craves notoriety, whether it be through cross-dressing or starring in a reality TV show. Even though he has a family who adores him, his self-interest and growing obsession with chasing fame propels him to risk all he has – his true reality.
- Tiago Ramos @ Split Screen [Portuguese]
- Jamie S. Rich @ DVD Talk
- Excerpt: The latest from Matteo Garrone, Reality, is a marvelous dissection of modern celebrity culture and the way the false promise of television success can cause big dreams to fizzle for an average person.
- [New – 9/19] | Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: It’s in the development of an ongoing analogy between celebrity-worship and conventional religion that “Reality” becomes fascinating; this preoccupation also makes the film legitimately Felliniesque.
- Kent Turner @ Film-Forward.com