"Terrific! Negotiates the delicate balance between humor and emotion. Clever, powerful, poignant… Remarkable."—Variety

"Impressive. Engrossing, irreverent and charming."—The Hollywood Reporter

"A buoyant farce that skewers Palermo's mafia infestation-scathingly, uproariously, with great comic verve. A political comedy that seems at once tremendously funny and intensely serious—a provocative, and perhaps even important, combination."—The Village Voice

"A brave and intelligent dark comedy-powerful!"—Film Society of Lincoln Center

"A potent and distinguished directorial debut—a genuinely funny and snappily edited romantic comedy.—The Sunday Times

"A film of bravery and defiance. A free-wheeling, kaleidoscopic, Forrest Gumpish odyssey... [that] is both an innocent love story and a skilful inquiry into the culpability, or not, of all Sicilians in their predicament. The bold mixture of innocence and outrage, fantasy and fact, makes the film unpredictable, utterly fresh. If you know this history, you recognise these names; if not, it may seem like an unlikely (and bloody) tall story. As the car bombs become too loud, the tone changes and the film becomes like a documentary, in which we are now heavily invested. Pif has made us all locals. It's brilliant: cleverly controlled and executed."—The Sydney Morning Herald