Soy Cuba/Ya Kuba 1964

Stephen Holden, New York Times: It is a dream of life in which everything is reduced to black and white. Or as the rhetoric used to go, you are either part of the problem or part of the solution. Nothing was ever quite that simple. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Some of the most exhilarating camera movements and most luscious black-and-white cinematography you'll ever see inhabit this singular, delirious 141-minute communist propaganda epic. Read more

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: In a sense, it's a movie about looking past surfaces to see what's in front of you. It takes the time to look around and discovers majesty, beauty and pathos everywhere it turns. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: As an example of lyrical black and white filmmaking, it is still stunning. If you see it, try to figure out how the camera floated down that wall. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: One of the most stylistically vigorous films of all time. Read more

G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: It is one of the most visually hypnotic films ever -- and that's not hyperbole. Read more

Time Out: Cinema's singular dream, so often betrayed elsewhere, is to deliver such visions as this. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: The resulting assault is so epicly impassioned it's less about Cuba per se than the fusillade of movement, shadow, light, vertigo, and landscape on the viewer's tender optic nerves. Read more