Andrey Rublyov 1966

Vincent Canby, New York Times: Since there always seems to be more going on in the head of the film's director than in the head of the man playing Andrei, the system did not work for me. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Stuns with the sort of unexpected poetic explosions we've come to expect from Tarkovsky. Read more

Tony Rayns, Time Out: Rublev was a minor icon-painter of the early 1400s. Tarkovsky re-imagines him as a Christ-like cypher for the sufferings of a divided Russia under the Tartar invaders. Read more