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Rating: 10/10 (10 July 2016)

Audiences will be laughing hysterically while crying their eyes out. There are good things to be said for "Life Is Beautiful."
It's an ambitious film by an exceptional comic talent. It's a sincere effort, not an ego trip by a performer trying to expand his range, and there are moments that are genuinely funny, and others that are harrowing.
But the picture doesn't work, at least not to the extent it was intended to.
In "Life Is Beautiful," Roberto Benigni sets out to do the impossible -- to make a sad but joyous and wonderfully life-affirming comedy set in a Nazi concentration camp. When it's over, the impossible is still impossible, but give him credit for trying.