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“The ending is weird but beautiful when he realizes that he must accept his life how it is and embraces the people in his life.”
moviefan23u429u · Metacritic ↗
“extremely boring movie”
gracjanski · Metacritic ↗
“After 30 minutes I couldnt bear it anymore”
gracjanski · Metacritic ↗
Read 28 Aug 2026 · confidence 1% · too thin for a score · how this works
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“The best film ever made about filmmaking.”
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times · 100
“It exerts an irresistible pull.”
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian · 100
“A grim fable of modern man, a true art picture.”
James Powers, The Hollywood Reporter · 100
“If 8½ seems stuck in the early 1960s, it's only superficially so. Somehow, the movie is more than the dated crisis of a naval-contemplating artist. It's about the inability in all of us to make sense of our lives, put it all together and come up with something meaningful.”
Desson Thomson, Washington Post · 100
“8 1/2 is probably the most potent movie about film-making, within which fantasy and reality are mixed without obfuscation, and there's a tough argument that belies Fellini's usual felicitous flaccidity.”
Derek Malcolm, The Guardian · 100
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 28 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
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“The ending is weird but beautiful when he realizes that he must accept his life how it is and embraces the people in his life.”
moviefan23u429uabout 85–100% inread it ↗
“extremely boring movie”
gracjanskiabout 0–15% inread it ↗
“After 30 minutes I couldnt bear it anymore”
gracjanskiabout 15–25% inread it ↗
“THE GOOD: Marcello Mastroianni delivers a titanic performance. Through unreal visuals, editing and score, Fellini blends dreams and reality creating numerous unforgettable scenes. THE BAD: Definitely not for everyone. The constant sense of overwhelness may distance the viewer from the story.”
AJ_13read it ↗
“Widely touted as one of the all-time great works of cinema, Federico Fellini’s 8½ is an elusive film about even more elusive things. It’s a meaningfully chaotic picture about trying to distil meaning from chaos and it’s a creative success about creative failure. It chronicles the resonant moments in one man’s life and admits that it can’t quite clarify why they matter. Doing justice to its early working title of The Beautiful Confusion, 8½ is a daring high wire act and an outstanding technical a”
j_haseltineread it ↗
“**Fellini, deconstructed, improvised and enshrined in a film that (not) pleases everyone.** I'm not a fan or deep connoisseur of Italian cinema, but I've heard of Federico Fellini, and I know that this film is considered one of this director's best films. I haven't seen any of his films yet: this was the first. And honestly, I don't quite understand this fascination: the film is chaotic! I think that, unless someone is an expert in cinema, the vast majority of people who saw the film did not ”
Filipe Manuel Netoread it ↗
“Acclaimed director "Guido" (Marcello Mastroianni) is looking for a peaceable life after his last successful movie, but at every turn he is being pursued by people who want to capitalise on the success. He just hasn't the inspiration though - and determined not to just churn out any old rubbish, retreats to a small town for some rest, recuperation and hopefully inspiration. He in also rather reaping what he sowed as his wife "Luisa" (Anouk Aimée) and her rival "Claudia" (Claudia Cardinale) are vy”
CinemaSerfread it ↗
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