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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- Lovers of deliberate kitsch should seek it out and make it a part of all celebrations of bad taste. Lovers of “The Godfather” films and new age mafia types like the “Sopranos” have always been into bad taste and so won’t get this.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceManically entertaining, Tano may have been a popular hit, but its caricatured world of papier-mâché bad taste fulfills at least one Underground criteria: Save for a big showstopper in the Vucciria market, it all could've been shot in someone's basement.
- An inexplicable multiple award winner, To Die for Tano left me more perplexed than pleased. But then I don’t really get Roberto Benigni either.
- 50VarietyDavid RooneyVarietyDavid RooneyHumor is inconsistent, and the film suffers from lack of shape and fluidity, playing more like a series of disjointed sketches. But there are more than enough high points to compensate.
- 25New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoThe Italian film industry must be in sad shape when its latest import to the US is a tired bit of trash from 1997, To Die for Tano.