Star Power Can't Save Dante's Inferno on Netflix

Slate critic Laura Miller characterizes Julian Schnabel’s In the Hand of Dante as a beautifully shot but chaotic star-studded adaptation of Nick Tosches’ novel: Oscar Isaac and Gal Gadot play dual roles, Gerard Butler anchoring a campy villain, with a cast that also includes Pacino, Scorsese, Momoa, and Malkovich. The film hops between 2001 and Dante’s 14th-century life, delivering an overblown romantic thread, pompous dialogue, and garish mid-ages theatrics, ultimately feeling like spectacle chasing coherence but landing nowhere near divine or funny—more of a loud misfire than a triumph of cinema.