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Ty Burr, Boston Globe: [Works best] as an entry in the genre of Hollywood schadenfreude pioneered by the 1991 Apocalypse Now documentary Hearts of Darkness. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: A fascinating record of how the movie fell apart, piece by piece, with everything short of a natural disaster conspiring against the filmmaker. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: [W]onderful look at how movies are made or how movies fall apart. Read more
Erik Lundegaard, Seattle Times: Read more
Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: You can interpret Lost in La Mancha as a sort of triumph of the creative spirit. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Lost may not be a great piece of filmmaking, but it is a great story; its directors display dramatic intelligence. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Bitterly funny and oddly poignant. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Records an accident while it's happening, revealing a situation that makes you laugh again and again while weeping, metaphorically at least, for the sheer frustration of it all. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: I'd like Lost in La Mancha more if it didn't take the easy but misleading route of dovetailing Gilliam's frustrations into Welles's, and then dovetailing both into Quixote's. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Entertaining documentary about how badly everything went. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The filmmakers, Louis Pepe and Keith Fulton, get perilously close to the glitches and backbiting, the mad logistical frustrations that derailed Gilliam's Quixote. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Gilliam himself is a joy to behold. His wit stays sharp even as his fortunes dull, and the conditions that conspire against him only prove the mettle in our man of La Mancha. Read more
Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News: Should be required viewing for all film-school students, aspiring filmmakers and studio suits. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Too bad for Gilliam and everyone involved, but in the departments of spectacle and schadenfreude, great fun for us. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Unfortunately, Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe have made rather underwhelming work of Gilliam's overwhelming problems. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Some films end with a whimper; this one banged into a stone wall. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Does exactly what it sets out to do, describing the picture Gilliam was hoping to make and showing just how wrong it went. But it's also an elegy for every doomed picture that was never made. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Captures one of the wildest, most heartbreaking episodes in Gilliam's career. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: A fascinating glimpse at the fragile ecosystem of a movie shoot, but I'm bound to say that I don't share its view of Gilliam. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Neither inspires us to pine for what might've been nor makes Gilliam-style filmmaking seem like a noble pursuit. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: A fascinating chronicle of bad luck, bad faith and bad weather all striking on the same day. Read more