This film manages to appeal to the better angels of our nature in a way that only deepens as we grow older along with the film.
– Kenneth Turan,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Jan 2010
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The picture is a pure exercise in directorial virtuosity.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
6 Jul 2010
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De Sica carefully balances a generally tragic sensibility with a quiet undercurrent of hope, all the while sucking us into the story with the sheer urgency of the search for a stolen bicycle.
– Hank Sartin,
Time Out,
18 Nov 2011
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Undeniably the most important neorealist film after Rossellini's Open City.
– Don Druker,
Chicago Reader,
14 Jan 2013
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The work of screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, director Vittorio De Sica, the nonprofessional actors, and many others is so charged with a common purpose that there's no point in even trying to separate their achievements.