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22 out of 100

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7.7 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 15 Ratings

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  • Summary: A love-struck Italian poet finds himself in Iraq at the outset of the American-led invasion.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 10
  3. Negative: 6 out of 10
  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Deborah Young
    60
    Like an Iraq-war mirror image of "Life Is Beautiful," actor-director Roberto Benigni's The Tiger and the Snow re-runs the successful structure and comic persona of the 1998 Oscar-winning film in a trippy fantasia about a poet who follows his love to hell and, in this happier ending, back.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    38
    Benigni's artfully composed images are as empty as his political convictions.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ed Halter
    20
    The results are neither profound nor funny, but merely uncomfortable. A hubristic failure at risky humor, The Tiger and the Snow provides Benigni his own Michael Richards moment.

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  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. LeeXXXXXXXX
    10
    Only if you have yourself been hopeless and deeply in love will you be able to understand the complexity of someone like Begnini's character in this film. He loves his wife. And, he loves her completely. Indeed, he may have strayed. Nonetheless, his commitment to this woman is all he now knows. She is his everything, his every thought. She completes his day, his night, his every breath...and, without her. As he said to the old Arab pharmacist, there is nothing left...on this earth.… Expand
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  2. CarlosP.
    5
    Nothing special, somewhat entertaining. If you're a fan of RB then go watch it, if not save your money and wait for when it comes to TV.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. Hitchhiker
    0
    There's gotta be a ban against fossilized once-tolerable sentimentalist Italian directors! Considering the reality of what's going on in the world today, especially in Iraq, I found the movie not only devoid of any cinematic creativity, artistic integrity or simple charm, but also downright offensive, outdated and moronic_ emotionally and intellectually!… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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