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(1 - 20) of 20 OFCS Rating: 35% Rotten Page   1   B- "Francis Ford Coppola is making movies again, and that's reason enough to rejoice. Even if it ends up a baffling intellectual riff, Youth Without Youth still resonates deeply in ways younger filmmakers would never even dare consider."   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf D "Francis Coppola's gasping adaptation of Mircea Eliade's out-of-print novella should provide the tipping point at which audiences start avoiding the exasperated genre of magical realism that crept into modern film vernacular with a vengeance."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "With a made-up language, Dominic asserts, he can "describe paradoxical situations, impossible to express in any existing language." This might be one way to describe Youth Without Youth, a movie conceived as a kind of insular language%u2014convolut"   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1/4 "...nothing less than a complete mess that often resembles an arty student film."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair B "Though not an easy film to grasp or possibly enjoy, it's nevertheless a mindblowing acid-like excursion into the secret world of Orientalism."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz F "Errant pseudo-mystical nonsense that manages to be both ponderously pretentious and extravagantly absurd...an act of real cinematic lunacy."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/5 "An ambitious spiritual drama based on a novella by Mircea Eliade, this unwieldy movie fails as a compelling human drama and fills the screen instead with mind-numbingly dull intellectual matters."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 6/10 "Challenges one to keep up, but its destination is disappointingly simplistic. Just the same, I look back on the film with a wry smile."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 3/10 "This is the work of a man who has truly lost his marbles."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick "It would be easy to say Dominic is lost in a film; better to suggest he's adrift in a projection."   Reeler   Keith Uhlich 2/4 "Coppola's eye for vividly composed images is undiminished, but the story is an unfocussed hodge-podge of mystical musings and Twilight Zone-ish occurances."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 1.5/4 "The director treats his material as if it were Last Year at Marienbad, yet his story's particulars are too goofy and too incompatible to result in something haunting or beguiling."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 5/5 " I suspect that it will be registered as one of those fascinating follies that retains its mystique and allure long after the memory of the more successful films of the season has faded into nothing."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2.5/5 "Far too bookish and strange to fully engage us. But it looks terrific."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline A- "You want a story? Look at the front page of your local paper. I'm here for the light show."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick C "Youth Without Youth, scripted by the helmer from the Mircea Eliade's novella, is a sometimes painful to watch tome that only accentuates the lack of Coppola's past greatness."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford B- "... Coppola isn't as invested in the ideas as he is in their cinematic expression."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker "While a movie doesn't have to make literal sense to be good, a filmmaker can't be so lost in his own universe that he forgets his job is to open it out to the rest of us. And that, apparently, is what has happened to Coppola here."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 4/10 "A boondoggle so obnoxious in concept and execution that it's hard to see why [Coppola] thought that it might be a good idea to try filming it in the first place."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 20) of 20 OFCS Rating: 35% Rotten Page   1