Arriba Tutto: reviews

What the critics say average 5.8 from 6 outlets

• 8.0 ABCOti Rodríguez Marchante A piece loaded with a message as revolutionary and against the grain as the idea that a clown's nose is the best barricade against a tank: its anti-war stance is not one of placards or parties, it is natural, sensible, generous. Read
• 6.0 El MundoLuis Martínez Mota manages to put together a comedy-drama as effective as it is moving, free of prejudice and, without the slightest blush, beautiful. It is not the most original film, nor the most restrained, but who cares. Read
• 6.0 CinemaníaJavier Ocaña The directing debut of José Mota, a television star for decades, is a surprise: a film with a remarkable technical and formal finish and lovely cinematography by Kiko de la Rica. Read
• 6.0 La RazónCarmen L. Lobo This beautiful and very sincere homage to comedy is also an equally beautiful tribute to cinema. And the more classic, the better. Read
• 5.0 El PaísElsa Fernández-Santos When Mota misses the tender, likeable tone, Arriba Tutto turns, helped by a score that does it no favours, into one long Christmas advert. But when it works, Elejalde, Cabello and the comedian himself hit the kind of subversive innocence this debut is after. Read
• 4.0 EspinofBelén Prieto What could have been a moving, assertive film ends up as a sketch stretched to almost 100 minutes, with references that seem more interested in stirring nostalgia than in building something of its own. Read