Coppola tells this story with grand exuberance without masking the personal and historical tragedies that it involves (…). The movie’s costumes and décor, their color and light, lend the expansive action extraordinary visual vitality; Coppola’s own inner circle (…) display an uninhibited inventiveness that suggests the power of its personal implications. The entire film gleams with the allure of lacquered sheet metal and hurtles forward with the supercharged art and refined science of reinvigorated, industrial-strength movie-studio craft, which Coppola and his crew raise to new heights of imagination. — Richard Brody