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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Terry Gilliam's ferociously creative black comedy is filled with wild tonal contrasts, swarming details, and unfettered visual invention -- every shot carries a charge of surprise and delight. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: [A] darkly funny and truly visionary retro-futurist fantasy. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Brazil is a stinging, Strangelovian satire of the power of the bureaucracy in an Orwellian landscape. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Very hard to follow. Read more
Time Out: Fortunately the story of an alternative future is realised with such visual imagination and sparky humour that it's only half way through that the plot's weaknesses become apparent. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Gilliam understood that all futuristic films end up quaintly evoking the naive past in which they were made, and turned the principle into a coherent comic aesthetic. Read more