Rating: R | Runtime: 131 minutes
Release Date: December 5th, 2025 (USA) / January 15th, 2026 (Italy)
Studio: PiperFilm / MUBI
Director(s): Paolo Sorrentino
Writer(s): Paolo Sorrentino

Who owns our days?

I don’t know how much of it was nostalgia for a president with integrity, but I kind of loved this. That’s coming from someone who generally finds Paolo Sorrentino to be a great visualist and a messy dramatist.

An objectively smart script with a memorable protagonist (Toni Servillo is wonderful) caught in a three-quarter life crisis who’s coming to grips with the too often ignored concept that progress should be embraced and stewarded by passionate men and women much younger than those often tasked with the assignment. It’s also an objectively hilarious script that never ceases to surprise in its music choices, sight gags, or pointed banter.

I’m putting Milvia Marigliano in the top Supporting Actress spot of all my ballots.

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Toni Servillo in LA GRAZIA; photo by Andrea Pirrello, courtesy of MUBI.