Editing The Godfather Part III (section)

====Recut version (2020)====
On Rotten Tomatoes, the recut version, ''The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone'', holds an approval rating of 86% based on 58 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "''The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone'' pulls the audience back into Francis Ford Coppola's epic gangster saga with a freshly — albeit slightly — edited version of its final installment."<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_godfather_coda_the_death_of_michael_corleone |title= THE GODFATHER, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone (2020) |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]]|access-date= February 7, 2021}}</ref> On Metacritic, the film was assigned a weighted average score of 76 out of 100, based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-godfather-coda-the-death-of-michael-corleone |title=The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone Reviews |website=[[Metacritic]]|publisher=[[Red Ventures]] |access-date=December 18, 2020 }}</ref>

Writing for ''[[The Guardian]]'', [[Peter Bradshaw]] gave the film three out of five stars and stated, "I'm not sure how much, if anything, Coppola's re-edit does for the film, but it's worth a watch."<ref name=guardian>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/01/the-godfather-coda-the-death-of-michael-corleone-review-francis-ford-coppola-al-pacino|title=The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone review – Coppola edits the past|work=The Guardian|date=December 1, 2020|access-date=December 5, 2020|author=Peter Bradshaw}}</ref>

[[Owen Gleiberman]] of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' stated, "Here's the news and the ever-so-slight scandal: It's the same damn movie. [...] The one impactful change is the new opening scene" and that the film "gathers force as it goes along. It's a movie that can sweep you up if you let it [...] I salute Coppola's decision to put the movie back out there. I hope that a lot of people revisit it (or discover it for the first time), using that word 'coda' as a key — for, of course, ''The Godfather Part III'' always was an extended coda to what is arguably the greatest epic saga in the history of American cinema."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2020/film/columns/godfather-3-coda-review-death-of-michael-corleone-francis-ford-coppola-1234846553/|title='The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone' Is a Chance to Revisit a Film That Didn't Deserve Its Brickbats|publisher=Variety|date=December 4, 2020|access-date=December 5, 2020|author=Owen Gleiberman}}</ref>

Writing for ''[[IndieWire]]'', David Ehrlich said, "But when it was announced that [Coppola] had inevitably assembled a new cut of his most famous cause célèbre and re-christened it with the title he'd always wanted for the film... he wasn't trying to make it 'better' so much as he was trying to shift its place in history and reframe the picture as less the third part of a flawed trilogy than the postscript of a legendary dyad."<ref>{{cite news |last1= Ehrlich |first1= David |title= How 'The Godfather Coda' Allows Francis Ford Coppola to Redefine His Biggest Disappointment |url= https://www.indiewire.com/2020/12/the-godfather-coda-the-death-of-michael-corleone-review-1234603176/ |date= December 10, 2020 |work= [[IndieWire]] |access-date= December 10, 2020 }}</ref>