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Generally favorable reviews- based on 15 Ratings

  • Summary: A love-struck Italian poet finds himself in Iraq at the outset of the American-led invasion.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 10
  2. Negative: 6 out of 10
  1. 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. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    38
    Benigni's artfully composed images are as empty as his political convictions.
  3. 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.
  4. 0
    The longer the movie goes on, the more annoying Benigni's infantile behavior becomes.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
  2. 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
  2. EP
    8
    I dont know what is wrong with the critics. This movie may not be the quality 'Life is beauitful' was, but it was still a pretty good film. Roberto Benigni's comedy is simple and smart, this film is lighthearted and very sweet. It's holds a kind of fantasy, fairy tale like love story which most European (Italian) love stories hold. This usually does not come across well with American film critics who claim it is corny. But the way Benigni does it is refreshing. This is a nice film, and enjoyable. The critics are dead wrong on this one! May not be Oscar worthy, but it's worthy of a viewing or two. Expand
  3. JohnR.
    7
    Not Benigni's best but certainly a entertaining film, thats offers good lgiht-hearted comedic moments with a nice love story.
  4. 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

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