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: Reviewers on IMDb praise the clean direction and artful wide shots but note that the pacing can feel "frantic" and the transitions "strange". Who is it for?

(2020), the directorial debut of Italian actor Pietro Castellitto, is a riotous, pitch-black social satire that collides two diametrically opposed families in Rome—one intellectual and bourgeois, the other proletarian and neo-fascist. The Verdict: A Chaotic, Grotesque Puzzle I predatori

: A point of contention among critics from The Upcoming is the film's tendency to "normalize" its fascist characters by making them confusingly likable or tragic. : Reviewers on IMDb praise the clean direction

: The script, which won Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival , is its strongest asset. It manages to tie disparate storylines together without leaving loose ends, often using callbacks to earlier, seemingly nonsensical scenes to create a final explosion of chaos. The Verdict: A Chaotic, Grotesque Puzzle : A

: Castellitto uses an "unlikely accident" to force these two "predatory" families into each other's orbits. The film's cynicism is total; even a subplot involving a plan to exhume Friedrich Nietzsche’s body serves to highlight the characters' alienation and obsession with triviality.