El topo 1970

Jay Cocks, TIME Magazine: The film is by turns comic and profound, hysterical and pompous, fully complex enough to deserve more than a simple yea or nay. Read more

Roger Greenspun, New York Times: El Topo is a good deal more interesting and a good deal less hung up on its own pretensions than all my most intelligent friends had led me to believe. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: An extravagant hodgepodge of hand-me-down surrealism, mysticism, Italian westerns, theater of cruelty, and Bunuel -- more enjoyable for its unending string of outrages than for its capacity to make coherent sense. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: This is gutbucket Luis Bunuel , surrealism on the cheap, and it hasn't dated well -- the blood is patently fake and the gunshots are dubbed. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: A dreary, protracted exercise in sadomasochism. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Jodorowsky dazzles us with such delicate mythological footwork that the violence becomes distanced, somehow, and we accept it like the slaughters in the Old Testament. Read more

Ben Walters, Time Out: It remains an aesthetically intoxicating trip. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: The movie's lure is sensual and unflagging; that's what makes it, for all its arty absurdity, the last great movie of the 1960s. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: You may find it a tiresome, macho relic -- or a ragtag circus wandering through a fantasy realm part Treasure of the Sierra Madre, part Tolkien's Middle-earth. Read more