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The Godfather Part III

1990

Francis Ford Coppola

Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy García ...

7.8

75,700

Drama In the final installment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young. While he attempts to link the Corleone's finances with the Vatican, Michael must deal with the machinations of a hungrier gangster seeking to upset the existing Mafioso order and a young protégé’s love affair with his daughter. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"['The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone' review]: It’s the same damn movie. I’m not exaggerating; it really is. The one impactful change is the new opening scene"	NEU
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"['The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone' review]: Overall, it’s a version that feels even more elegiac—a true coda instead of just another part of the same story. (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"['The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone' review]: The much-maligned conclusion to the epic family saga now has more cohesion and more impact (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"['The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone' review]: Ultimately, the changes to this 'Godfather' don't feel significant enough to wholly justify the exercise, but it's still interesting revisiting [the] movie"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"['The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone' review]: I’m not sure how much, if anything, Coppola’s re-edit does for the film, but it’s worth a watch (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jim Vejvoda IGN	"['The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone' review]: While even a 'fine' 'Godfather' sequel is better than most other movies, 'The Godfather, Coda' still lacks the power, heart, and soul that made 'The Godfather' Parts I and II so beloved"	NEU
United States	Chris Evangelista SlashFilm	"['The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone' review]: Francis Ford Coppola Offers a ‘Godfather III’ Re-Cut You Can’t Refuse (...) Coppola’s direction is too sharp; too clever to be ignored"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Represents a certain moral improvement over its predecessors by refusing to celebrate and condemn violence and duplicity in the same breath, or at least to the same degree. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It is, I suspect, not even possible to understand this film without knowing the first two, and yet, knowing them, "Part III" works better than it should, evokes the same sense of wasted greatness, of misdirected genius. (...) Rating ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[It] is not up to the level of its predecessors (...) Is 'Part III' worth your time? Of course (...) Coppola has been negligent with the script."	NEU
United States	Variety	"'The Godfather Part III' matches its predecessors in narrative intensity, epic scope, socio-political analysis, physical beauty and deep feeling for its characters and milieu."	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Most film sequels are strictly optional. 'The Godfather Part III' is inevitable, and as such it's irresistible."	POS
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"'The Godfather Part III' isn't just a disappointment, it's a failure of heartbreaking proportions (...) It makes you wish it had never been made."	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Coppola unveils a vision of corruption that embraces the entire world. Yet he’s also reveling in sheer theatrical magic in a way that only a master can (...) [The movie] becomes pure opera."	POS
United Kingdom	Neil Smith BBC	"Sympathetic filmgoers may find something of merit (...) Where 'The Godfather Part III' really stumbles is in the director's catastrophic decision to cast his own daughter, Sofia (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Adrian Turner Radio Times	"This third picture is merely a distant relative and was made for purely mercenary reasons (...) Pacino has some fine moments (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Barry McIlheney Empire	"'The Godfather Part III' works just fine (...) An unworthy heir to the tradition (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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