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Vincent Canby, New York Times: It's a stunning spectacle, an adventure-comedy not quite like any other, and the most benign movie ever made about 19th-century capitalism running amok. Read more
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: The film may have been intended as an ironic comment on the absurdity of human ambition, but it's an irony that explodes in Herzog's face. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: As a document of a quest and a dream, and as the record of man's audacity and foolish, visionary heroism, there has never been another movie like it. Read more