Padre Pio

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Terry D A beautiful movie start to finish Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/16/25 Full Review Jennifer M More about the socialist party issues than Padre Pio. Very disappointing ! Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 07/14/25 Full Review AMS D Absolutely an amazing movie. ✝️ Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/03/25 Full Review Audience Member This movie received lower ratings not because it is bad movie but because most of movie critics and generally people today are agnostic. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/22/25 Full Review Brad O A powerful message and some dramatic moments but the message is lost in inconsistent pacing ams melodrama. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/20/25 Full Review Ben D This is a bizarre movie. The actors all speak in English, even though the vast majority are not native speakers. This decision leads to terrible, unpolished dialogue. I was attracted to the idea of Shia LaBeouf playing the eponymous character and assumed I’d be sitting in for an interesting story on the saint that wasn’t just a birth-to-death biopic. Instead, Padre Pio (LaBeouf) is on-screen for approximately 25% of the film while the rest concerns a small Italian town wherein a rag-tag band of socialists garner support from the townsfolk and win a surprising election. Abel Ferrara shoots this mostly in the form of young college-educated men extolling the virtues of socialism and the main landowner (Marco Leonardi) being absurdly cruel. There’s just something off about the movie. There’s no adhesion between the two stories and you just want the whole thing to be shot in Italian. Even if you had LaBeouf only speak in English, it would’ve been strange but stylish, in a way — note that LaBeouf sounds exactly like LaBeouf and does not put on any sort of accent. While I’d usually commend this decision — if the actor is not going to use the language of the character (here, Italian) it’s silly to use an Italian accent — the juxtaposition of Italian actors using accented English to LaBeouf’s unaccented English is just weird. (The best example of this whole issue done right is The Death of Stalin.) I still don’t know what this film is trying to be and I don’t care to concern myself with it any longer. It’s a bad, bad movie. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 11/14/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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