Brazil 1985

Critics score:
98 / 100

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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Terry Gilliam's ferociously creative black comedy is filled with wild tonal contrasts, swarming details, and unfettered visual invention -- every shot carries a charge of surprise and delight. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: [A] darkly funny and truly visionary retro-futurist fantasy. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Brazil is a stinging, Strangelovian satire of the power of the bureaucracy in an Orwellian landscape. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Very hard to follow. Read more

Time Out: Fortunately the story of an alternative future is realised with such visual imagination and sparky humour that it's only half way through that the plot's weaknesses become apparent. Read more

Variety: Brazil offers a chillingly hilarious vision of the near-future. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Gilliam understood that all futuristic films end up quaintly evoking the naive past in which they were made, and turned the principle into a coherent comic aesthetic. Read more