Rating: 6/10 -- It suffers from a lack of clear direction, leading to its many excellent pieces never quite fitting together. Despite that, as a love letter to Italy's past and a unique historical drama, Martin Eden does have something to offer audiences. Full Review

By shooting on 16mm, with a good deal of superb color grading, Marcello creates a malleable template that allows for often seamless insertions of archival footage designed to underline the vulnerable yet eternal position of the everyman within competing discourses of the last century.

Rating: 5/5 -- A sweep of cinematic history earned by the film's aspirations. No film could replicate the tragic weight of London's work, but this comes awfully close. Full Review

Rating: A- -- Fascinating literary adaption. Full Review

What ideas "Martin Eden" has are borrowed straight from the novel; what substance the novel has the movie removes, leaving its one big, notable idea emblazoned on it like a sticker on the bumper of a car being sold in a commercial... Full Review

Rating: 1.5/4 -- It's a slog at over two hours, much of it spent with Marinelli screaming or acting coarse. Full Review

[H]opefulness and rawness, much like society and the self, are ultimately inextricable in "Martin Eden," a work of art that abounds in its own beautiful contradictions. Full Review