As a study of extreme parent-child disillusionment, it’s not altogether unfamiliar, but it leaves a raw mark.

Some of the more melodramatic turns are predictable, and there are no great surprises. But in its melancholy and complicated fury... it packs a considerable punch.

For all the familial complications on screen, The Kingdom neither mythologises nor tempers the Mafia. Violence is used sparingly, yet it lingers in the margins of everyday mob dinners, boar hunts and bulletproof vests.

... contrasts the sun-splashed setting with the brutality of organized crime, but the film’s emotional power comes in its incisive exploration of regret, consequences, and troubled family legacies.