In the Hand of Dante Puts Oscar Isaac on Both Sides of a Netflix Heist of the Divine Comedy

In The Hand of Dante: a striking and ambitious cinematic fever dream

There are few films this year as ambitious as director Julian Schnabel’s In the Hand of Dante. Combining manuscript mystery, gangster thriller and spiritual odyssey, the film moves between medieval Italy and the 21st-century criminal underworld in pursuit of questions about creativity, faith, power and redemption. This film is a big, gutsy gamble. Casting a heavily costumed Martin Scorsese in an acting role with overwrought philosophical dialogu…

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘In the Hand of Dante’ on Netflix, a time-hopping trainwreck starring Oscar Isaac as Dante Alighieri and his newer, reincarnated self

Gerard Butler, Gal Gadot, John Malkovich, Al Pacino and Jason Momoa fill out the cast of this mega-misfire.

Movie Review – In the Hand of Dante (2025)

Read the original post on Flickering Myth here: Movie Review – In the Hand of Dante (2025) In the Hand of Dante, 2025. Directed by Julian Schnabel. Starring Oscar Isaac, Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, John Malkovich, Louis Cancelmi, Sabrina Impacciatore, Benjamin Clementine, Martin Scorsese, Al Pacino, Franco Nero, Jason Momoa. SYNOPSIS: A handwritten manuscript of Dante Alighieri’s poem “The Divine Comedy” makes its way from a priest to a mob boss i…

In the Hand of Dante puts Oscar Isaac on both sides of a Netflix heist of the Divine Comedy

Oscar Isaac plays the man who wrote the Divine Comedy and the man hired to steal it. That single decision sits at the center of In the Hand of Dante, and it explains the kind of film Julian Schnabel has made — one that puts the sacred and the criminal in the same body and dares you to tell them apart. The manuscript at the heart of the plot is the holiest object the story can imagine. Everyone who touches it wants to sell it. The story comes fro…

‘In the Hand of Dante’ review: Drama takes big swing, gets mixed results

It is difficult, at least after a single viewing, to wrap your arms around “In the Hand of Dante.” An ambitious adaptation of the 2002 novel of the same name by the late Nick Tosches, the latest film from director…