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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawNot a terribly profound film, but delivered with real brio.
- 80Screen DailyLee MarshallScreen DailyLee MarshallSet in Rome’s sprawling Cinecittà studios in their 1950s heyday, Finally Dawn is a rich, shape-shifting fairy tale, an odyssey of empowerment about a vulnerable girl navigating her way through a day and night of enchantments and dangers, using her weakness as a kind of magic shield.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterCaryn JamesThe Hollywood ReporterCaryn JamesFinally Dawn is uneven, and at 2 hours and 20 minutes indulgently long, but it is also full of texture, wit and a few done-to-perfection set pieces.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyMaureen Lee LenkerEntertainment WeeklyMaureen Lee LenkerCostanzo wants to tell a story set in the past, but he doesn't spend enough time fine-tuning the particulars that make period pieces feel vital rather than stagey. Additionally, at 140 minutes, the film is self-indulgent in length.
- 50IndieWireSteph GreenIndieWireSteph GreenI’m not quite sure how this group of actors came together or how any of the ideas coalesce into something that a) makes sense or b) is meant to make us feel anything. It’s impenetrable with no intellect: a true curio in the worst way.
- 50VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeOne can sense what Costanzo’s trying to do, but he’s made a fatal miscalculation: Mimosa is not leading lady material, and 140 minutes is far too long to spend pretending otherwise.
- 25The PlaylistRafaela Sales RossThe PlaylistRafaela Sales RossThe bitter aftertaste of dullness remains in its place, an unforgivable sin within the art form Constanzo seems so set on paying tribute to.