Overview
- The film, adapted by Julian Schnabel from Nick Tosches’s 2002 novel, moved from a June 12 theatrical run to Netflix on June 24 and is now widely available to stream.
- Critics have broadly judged the movie as visually ambitious but narratively muddled, with frequent complaints about its long runtime, abrupt tonal shifts, and confusing structure.
- Reviewers singled out the decision to cast Oscar Isaac in parallel roles and to give several actors dual parts as a formal device that many found distracting or ineffective.
- The plot uses an alleged original manuscript of Dante’s Divine Comedy as a MacGuffin to link a modern mafia-driven heist to 14th-century Dante scenes, and reviewers criticized the film’s repeated violent and coarse moments.
- A minority of critics praised Schnabel’s art‑house touches and the Italian cinematography, but aggregator scores around the June 24 streaming debut reflect a mainly negative critical consensus.