Umberto D (re-release)
User Score
8.5 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 12 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12

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  1. DanC.
    May 3, 2004
    10
    I possibly cried more during this film than any film, besides possibly Bambi when I was about 5.
  2. PrabhatS
    Sep 17, 2006
    10
    De Sica is superb in narrating a tale which is beyond the boundaries of time. Umberto still lives with us, in our times, in our society. His story moves and keeps us moving.
  3. YoonC.
    Sep 21, 2003
    10
    DeSica's last great film, perhaps his best. Unlike Bicycle Thief which is about a man facing obstacles but still has a future and a loving son and wife, Umberto D is about an old man, useless to society, without income, evicted, and has a dog to feed. A heart-tugger? Not in the least. Made following the rampant poverty, desperation, and bureaucratic impotence of post-war Italy, it�39;s a film that honors and remembers its many faceless victims. The strain between the old man's knowledge of his doomed fate and the dog's everlasting innocence and faith leads to one of the most powerful, unendurably sad endings in cinema. … Expand

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Metascore
92 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 9 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    The credo of Italy's fabled neorealist movement was that movies rooted in real, unadorned experience carry more dramatic impact than studio concoctions can dream of, and this 1952 masterpiece exemplifies that argument brilliantly.
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  2. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Robert Wilonsky
    90
    De Sica's 1952 neorealist masterpiece; it's a stark snapshot in which all is revealed about the "daily life of mankind," as the director once offered by way of description.
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  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    100
    Universally appealing story that plays as well now as it did on opening day a half-century ago. Maybe better.
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