El traidor - Reviews

...a new Italian period drama about that time when, from 1980-2000, real-life Mafia don Tommaso Buscetta (...) informed on a couple hundred gangsters.

...a story of betrayal, modernity, and one man’s struggles with a lifetime of trauma.

...big, bold, confident film-making.

Marco Bellocchio's muscular and absorbing 1980s Mafia biopic stars an excellent Pierfrancesco Favino as Sicilian mobster turned informant.

...a meaty biopic of a man who was directly responsible for the conviction of over 400 members of the mob during the 1980s and 1990s.

...an unconventional mafia tale that’s a brutal knockout.

...a fascinating, morally ambiguous historical document...