Scarlet: reviews

What the critics say average 6.8 from 5 outlets

• 8.0 VarietyPeter Debruge Smaller, sweeter and more sensitive than Marcello?s earlier work. Read
• 7.0 The WrapBen Croll It?s a bit of a mess, no doubt about that, but a fascinating one. Read
• 7.0 Screen DailyLisa Nesselson Quietly rewarding thanks to an excellent cast whose faces we observe in frequent close-ups as their dirt-poor characters do their very best with scant resources Read
• 7.0 The Hollywood ReporterJordan Mintzer It?s not groundbreaking stuff, but Marcello has a talent for making such material come alive through his inventive direction, whisking us away to a time and place that we experience as if we were actually there. It?s not enough to make Scarlet a great movie, but it?s one that manages to puts us in its shoes the way few films nowadays do. Read
• 5.0 The PlaylistRafaela Sales Ross The arresting visual competency of Scarlet, which includes the clever use of archival footage previously seen in Marcello?s Venice darling ?Martin Eden? and the beautifully composed textures of its cinematography, can?t salvage its muddled pace. Read