This triptych of Neapolitan fairy tales is visually resplendent but lacking in depth and emotional heft.

“Tale of Tales” review: Matteo Garrone condenses the 50 fairy tales collected in the title 17th century compilation into three magical fables.

★★★★☆ Once upon a time, fairytales were folk tales. Then they became children’s stories, were made into Disney cartoons and now star Angelina Jol...

Head to Empire Online for the verdict on Matteo Garrone's sumptuous new fairy tale.

(Matteo Garrone, Italy, 2015)

Magical thinking: Matteo Garrone adapts three 17th-century Neopolitan fables, warts (and fleas and sea monsters) and all

Italian director Matteo Garrone’s fairy-tale movie is opulent and mischievous

Salma Hayek headlines Matteo Garrone’s imaginative interweaving of Neapolitan fairy tales

A Felliniesque fantasy drama, distinguished by its lavish production design and very fluid camera work

Cannes Review: Matteo Garrone's 'Tale of Tales' is the Wackiest Fairy Tale Movie Ever

One of the earliest and grisliest scenes in "Tale of Tales," a fitfully entrancing English-language fantasy from the Italian writer-director Matteo Garrone, ...

Matteo Garrone serves up a trio of fabulously gory fantasies with the help of a solid ensemble cast.

Jon Favreau’s remake of the 1967 Disney animated movie is technically astounding, but missing the call of the wild.

An English-language film from Italy, “Tale of Tales” toys with the ogres, princesses and crones of classic fairy tales to almost no dramatic effect, albe...

With his latest film, Tale of Tales, Garrone’s assuredness gets the better of him.

For all the near photo-realism of today’s generation of computer-generated effects, there’s still something to be said for old-fashioned, tactile costume...

Three fairy tales get the Grand Guignol treatment in the gory, glorious Italian triptych 'Tale of Tales,' starring Salma Hayek and John C. Reilly.

Dir. Matteo Garrone. It-Fr-UK, 2015, 133 mins

Garrone leaps back in time to a period of fickle monarchies, in which the rulers of three neighboring kingdoms have their impulses put to the test when magic...