the dinner
(i nostri ragazzi)

Forget last year's Dutch "Dinner" and chow down on Ivano de Matteo's "The Dinner," a significant improvement on the previous adaptation and a more nuanced critique of modern society than Herman Koch's eponymous bestseller. De Matteo ("Balancing Act") and co-scripter Valentina Ferlan snip away much of the novel's shambolic final quarter, making the story about two couples learning their teenage kids have cold-bloodedly murdered a homeless woman a sharper, more credible statement about today's culture of violence.

Jay Weissberg, Variety