New York Times
"...Run, don't lope or jog, to [ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS]....ROCCO looks better than ever..." 09/21/1991 p.12USA Today
"...[The film] finds a cinematic giant in a naturalistic mode....A real movie..." 06/01/1990 p.3D Sight and Sound
"...Combining the attention to social detail of the neo-realists with the kind of heightened melodrama you might expect in classical tragedy....The film works on every level..." 08/01/2002 p.59 Uncut
4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] meaty monochrome feast....From grey neo-realism to bells-and-whistles melodrama. Intense." 04/01/2008 p.127 Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "Annie Giradot gives the film's standout performance, vulnerable beneath her streetsmart carapace." 05/01/2008 p.155 | 
