Diana Tuova Spotlight on Film Jul 18, 2024 4/5

There are bits of greatness scattered throughout this film, and even if Ferrara does not manage to convince us entirely, these pieces, as well as Dafoe’s acting, make Tommaso a very curious film, especially character-wise.

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D.M. Palmer Vague Visages Nov 9, 2023

Cinema as a form of processing...

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Ayeen Forootan In Review Online Jun 5, 2021

The traits that define Ferrara's best work are present and precise...a mixture of the mundane and the otherworldly, the physical and the spiritual, the material and the mystical.

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Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope Feb 14, 2021 C

Willem Dafoe is a fine actor and he makes the most of the title role. He emotes the hell out of it, but I sure could not make much sense out of this movie.

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Nicole Ackman Next Best Picture Feb 1, 2021 5/10

If Tommaso was 20 to 30 minutes shorter, perhaps it would be a more palatable viewing experience and would feel less meandering.

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Filipe Freitas Always Good Movies Jan 14, 2021 4/5

That's the nature of Ferrara's world; a world where pleasure and pain can't stay apart from each other.

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Witney Seibold Critically Acclaimed Podcast Nov 3, 2020

Ferrara and Dafoe have together been slowly building up an ongoing miniature Human Comedy in the shadows.

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Yasser Medina Cinefilia Oct 8, 2020 4/10

A Ferrara's drama with a moderate performance from Dafoe, shot in an evident documentary style, but which in the long term is swept away by a narrative as empty as the streets of Rome at midnight. [Full review in Spanish]

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Guillem Martinez Oya Cinematismo Oct 5, 2020 3.5/5

A film that works like a mirror: the director watch himself in an audiovisual work like a therapy itself. [Full review in Spanish]

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Ignacio Pablo Rico El antepenúltimo mohicano Sep 28, 2020 4/5

One of [director Abel Ferrara's] most memorable films. [Full review in Spanish]

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Daniel de Partearroyo Cinemanía (Spain) Sep 23, 2020 4/5

A sad, but above all beautiful movie. [Full review in Spanish]

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A.S. Hamrah The Baffler Sep 16, 2020

Like the screen personas of Ferrara and Dafoe themselves, Tommaso draws you in with a kind of cool friendliness that verges on the distrustful or psychotic.

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Gisela Savdie Letra Urbana Aug 28, 2020

With Ferrara's films we are always confronted with surprising changes, and scenes out of the ordinary [Full Review in Spanish]

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Carla Hay Culture Mix Jul 21, 2020

Although the drama Tommaso is elevated by the terrific talent of star Willem Dafoe, too much of the movie is unfocused and self-indulgent, and it's far from being one of [Abel] Ferrara's best films.

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Laura Hiros Diario La Estrella (Fort Worth, TX) Jul 6, 2020 3/5

A slow and unerring film with an impeccable story and performances. [Full review in Spanish]

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Luke Parker VoiceBoxOffice Jun 23, 2020 3/5

Willem Dafoe's performance breathes life into this semi-autobiographical film.

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James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk Jun 22, 2020 3/4

a portrait told in broad strokes that are sometimes too broad, but more often than not find some real power and insight in the details in-between

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Jon Negroni The Young Folks Jun 22, 2020 9/10

[I]n its execution, the film haphazardly makes a brilliant point about the price of reinventing yourself without first learning empathy.

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Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Jun 18, 2020 C+

No '8 1/2,' but it has its points of interest, even if as a whole it's as frustrating as its title character.

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David Bax Battleship Pretension Jun 17, 2020

Tommaso ends up fulfilling the promise of the foreboding groundwork Ferrara lays along the way (including some distressing real life bear attack footage) but this is, somehow, still a startlingly hopeful film for the director.

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