Balada triste de trompeta 2010

Critics score:
77 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Brilliant, bizarre, dazzling and utterly demented... Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Plenty of moments linger... Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: For those with a taste for the subversive and outrageous, run, don't walk. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Take Fellini, Tarantino and "Taxi Driver," throw 'em in a cage with a lion, and you'd get this strange, wild trip. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Although not everybody's glass of sangria, it has the making of a cult hit. Read more

Una LaMarche, New York Observer: You're left with the vague recollection of an interesting movie you were watching before you got kidnapped and subjected to over an hour of torture porn starring a fat, sadistic clown. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: If you like your baroque sex and violence with a side dish of heavy-duty symbolism ... put "The Last Circus" on your must-see list right now. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: From the far-too-teeming brain of Spanish writer/director Alex de la Iglesia, The Last Circus is a bizarre, surreal, grotesque, fascinating, demanding, disappointing and ultimately exhausting political allegory that plays like a waking nightmare. Read more

Greg Quill, Toronto Star: Basque director Alex de la Iglesia's exotic, surreal, hilarious, bloody and utterly explosive grand opus. Read more

Aaron Hillis, Village Voice: Baroquely sinister and grotesquely funny. Read more