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The Many Saints of Newark

The Many Saints of Newark

2021
Drama, Crime
2h 0m
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Avg Percentile 34.85% from 319 total ratings

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Rated 24 Oct 2021
50
21st
The Dickie plot is good but then you have the guys playing Paulie and Sylvio show up acting like some Italian minstrel show cartoon people. This was 2 hours of me waiting for the Sopranos theme Woke up this morning, watched a turtle cum.
Rated 22 Sep 2021
60
49th
If you love The Sopranos, this will most likely reward you with plenty of Easter eggs and references to the TV series. It does have that extended TV episode feeling it and is a bit structurally all over the place, but you learn a bit more about the people who were important to Tony Soprano in his youth. It's fun connecting the dots and if anything else, a nice little bonus for fans and a fitting Prologue for the TV series. If you haven't seen the show, don't see this first or you won't get it.
Rated 02 Oct 2021
7
67th
Some missteps (young Silvio is a walking timeline contradiction) but overall I loved it. Fills out the backstories of several characters from the series with details that are ironic or tragic in hindsight, while also standing on its own two legs as the story of Dickie Moltisanti. I can't think of another TV series tie-in movie that functioned so well both as its own thing and as an extension of the show. And if it's anything at all like the series, I'll like it even more in another two viewings.
Rated 04 Oct 2021
61
36th
Absolutely only for existing fans of the series. I'd also recommend a refresher on the series before going in because 90% of the enjoyment here is just making the connections between the show and this prequel. Everybody is basically doing an impression, some of which come off as missed comedy and some of which are incredible (Farmiga is truly outstanding).
Rated 09 Oct 2021
40
9th
As a huge fan of The Sopranos, this was just terrible. It has no Sopranos vibe at all. No story. No humour. That racism card was completely unnecessary and unrelated to the story. Speaking of the story, what is the story of this movie? It takes place in the golden age of mafias but it doesn't even feel like a mafia movie. Utterly disappointing.
Rated 01 Oct 2021
61
47th
It's... Aimless; easily half an hour could have been cut. Nivola's powerhouse performance, however, makes it worth the watch. Barely.
Rated 02 Oct 2021
6
24th
ok the one good thing about this movie is the son. the rest fluctuates between the shallow, the forgettable and the incomprehensible. honestly, I would NOT recommend it to Sopranos fans who are accustomed to a certain level of subtlety. if you like random bullshit and "remember whens" this might be for you. if they were testing the waters to see if the audience would accept the new Tony for a new project a la Better Call Saul, I may be willing to re evaluate this thing. but if this is it, wtf?
Rated 14 Oct 2021
50
35th
Kind of anticlimactic, but it’s fine. I went in not knowing what it was going to be about and I think I was a bit disappointed because of that.
Rated 26 Sep 2021
83
62nd
The film was fun but I was hoping they'd explore more backstory, like young christopher's relationship with tony and how they created Vito
Rated 02 Oct 2021
54
14th
I guess I wasn't actually expecting this to be as good as the series. With the show's reputation, that would probably be unreasonable. But I guess I was hoping for El Camino. A movie that didn't quite live up to Breaking Bad, but was still good enough. While I didn't hate Many Saints of Newark, it was still not close to El Camino's level. walked away from this thinking it was just okay but disappointing, but now that I think about it, it's probably a bad movie for how bland it is.
Rated 02 Oct 2021
34
19th
Yeah, okay, but what was Kevin Finnerty up to...?
Rated 03 Oct 2021
50
22nd
I love James Gandolfini. I love The Sopranos. But but HBOWokeMax thing?
Rated 03 Oct 2021
65
42nd
Feels a bit to shallow and light, but Vera Farmigas Livia, wow.
Rated 03 Oct 2021
7
69th
I read somebody somewhere refer to this as Young Sheldon with ziti, which pretty much yeah. It's more than that, though. My favorite types of movies are ones where regular schlubs become heroes and/or regular schlubs become titanic, tragic fuckups. I'll let you figure out which one of those types of movies this is.
Rated 04 Oct 2021
31
5th
1/3 shoehorned propaganda
Rated 04 Oct 2021
60
69th
An enjoyable little prequel film. Makes me want to binge the whole series again!
Rated 08 Oct 2021
83
67th
There’s a lot of flaws, but at its core this is vintage Chase - the humour, the flirtations with the supernatural, the refusal to mythologise these killers. Should have been a miniseries because there’s SO much to explore, especially with regards to the Harold storyline, unfortunately given short shrift here. So many amazing performances, especially Gandolfini. I’m so glad this wasn’t a Tony Soprano origin story like the advertising hinted at. A compelling addition to the world.
Rated 09 Oct 2021
90
82nd
Absolutely amazing movie if you love the series and you enjoy this style of movie. It adds more depth to a world that is already fully immersive. Nicola, Gandolfini and Farmiga are the stand outs on the acting front and it sure does not disappoint for long time fans. Wow. I can't say enough positive things about this movie. Absolutely an edge of your seat character drama that fills in the gaps. It will make you want more and make you want to do a rewatch of the series.
Rated 10 Oct 2021
63
34th
This feels like Sopranos light. At times almost unrelated to the universe (of which there are a thousand interesting stores that could have been explored), it dwells on a relationship between a never known character and the another we only knew as a ghost. Some of the performances are truly great , mirroring their Sopranos counterparts, others its simply a "oh, he's supposed to be X'. All in all this is only a worthwhile venture for big fans of the series to spot some fun connections.
Rated 10 Oct 2021
40
17th
Outside of Nivola and Farmiga there's even less reason to see this than EL CAMINO. Does Livia have any real scenes? What little she's given to do, or get done to her, seems like Chase trying to rewrite his way out of criticisms that the show demonized women with personality disorders or something. And what humour? The closest to a laugh in the whole thing is "...varsity athlete", which is the best of a lame lot of callbacks. Stoll is okay, but the rest of the Goombah Babies are awful.
Rated 12 Oct 2021
95
84th
I was very happy with this prequel to The Sopranos. Great casting and a compelling mafia drama in itself.
Rated 12 Oct 2021
70
42nd
If this prequel to "The Sopranos" was simply a stand-alone, 1960's set gangster film, it would be okay ... a fairly average story with a pretty good cast, some of whom are really firing on all cylinders. The fact that it has multiple plot threads that never really coalesce into a vision for what the movie is about would count against it, but it would exist as an okay way to spend a weekend afternoon.
Rated 13 Oct 2021
29
11th
Terrible prequel to the Sopranos. The only good thing was how they made the young actors look like the old ones from the tv series.
Rated 14 Oct 2021
55
13th
The Many Saints of Newark is a completely unnecessary addition to The Sopranos
Rated 17 Oct 2021
33
8th
That was a dull try to cash in on the Soprano heritage, yawn.
Rated 30 Oct 2021
67
29th
A disappointing sequel to The Sopranos that does very little with any of the established younger characters except do cringey nudge-wink fan service. This is in the second half, but the first half, although admittedly dealing with people and events tenuously linked to the show, shows stronger material.
Rated 02 Nov 2021
80
63rd
The Many Saints of Newark is a great movie for those who needed more Sopranos. For people like me who haven't actually finished or watched the original series, it isn't that great of a stand alone story. Even though I haven't watched all of the original series, I could see the wires leading from these scenes back to the original series and in that way a lot of the plot seemed forced. I did enjoy a lot of this movie. The story kept me involved but wierdly the Oedipal issue wasn't addressed at all
Rated 02 Nov 2021
25
16th
Wow this is boring!
Rated 13 Nov 2021
33
25th
not so good
Rated 29 Jan 2022
73
55th
In the first 30-40 minutes, I was like "Bah, it is a blatant cashing on The Sopranos" but after a while Moltasanti character found its footing and Farmiga made a great interpretation of the "Toxic mother" (That shooting scene between mother and father Sopranos in the car was crazy). Michael Gandolfini did justice to his father's character I think and after a while these "younger versions of Sopranos characters " became enjoyable.
Rated 25 Feb 2022
9
83rd
Badass. Shit like this makes me think hey maybe i don't mind a little fan service here and there.
Rated 21 Feb 2022
66
31st
Fan service.
Rated 07 Jun 2022
65
29th
Loved the tv show but that’s just not at the level. Nice to see them young and to see some references, but it really could be better
Rated 28 Jun 2022
76
30th
An endless sequence of name dropping of Sopranos characters, that's not enough substance for a feature film.
Rated 08 Aug 2022
50
44th
For fans of the series it’s a fun throwback but as a stand alone money if you don’t know the series this would probably be a bit long and boring.
Rated 17 Aug 2022
21
13th
So anytime Farmiga or Gandolfini are on screen, you can imagine it'd be amazing flashback material in the show itself, but fuck me the rest is awful. Silvio is a bad SNL impression AND you're going to do the identical twin thing again? It's not a Tony Soprano origin story and it's not really about the Newark riots. I would advise fans of the show to not watch it because of how off base Junior's depiction is, and Dickie Moltisanti's death was better when it was ambiguous.
Rated 27 Aug 2023
81
78th
I liked it, despite the fact it's wildly different from the show in tone, and the choice in script/outcomes is much different than I would've expected. David Chase wanted to do something different, and the result is very enjoyable, just unexpected. I also like the casting choices being different from the show's flashbacks, because this is much ... rougher. 26AUG2023
Rated 29 Oct 2023
88
83rd
I wonder if the reason this did so badly was that fans hadn't seen the original show in such a long time they could no longer spot some of the details linking some of these characters to the aged characters on the show. I watched this right after watching the whole series, so that didn't affect me. & although there are at least 2 storylines to follow (w/ the black guy's feeling the least connected), I thought they tied up nicely in terms of the backdrop that gave birth to the Tony we know.
Rated 12 Nov 2023
61
18th
They took a very ordinary Mafia plot, bolted on some weak civil rights commentary and gave it to some Sopranos fanboys to add some gimmicky Easter eggs and who's who. The Sopranos deserved better than this
Rated 25 Jan 2024
91
51st
This was pretty lambasted upon release, which is unfortunate because it is a worthwhile addition to the canon. There are plenty of easter eggs for more hardcore fans of the series, and the story is well-paced and well told. Perhaps the most impressive part is the casting. Funnily enough, John Magaro as a younger Silvio Dante is particularly impeccable.

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