Gilliam, with a finely tuned aesthetic, constructs it as an Orwellian, nightmarish satire, which always raises its dark tone when it interrogates the omnipotence of the bureaucratic State on the basis of a dystopia. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 20, 2024

From our post-9/11 viewpoint, Brazil’s biting social commentary comes across like an unheeded polemic against the slippery slope of surveillance and information gathering done in the name of national security.

| Jul 24, 2023

What the film lacks in terms of a pandering narrative, it makes up for in lush backdrops, fantastic practical effects, and very real observations on surveillance states.

| Jul 18, 2023

Gilliam’s best at complex science fiction, featuring a perfect mix of existential depression and absurd humor.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 19, 2023

It offers sharp consumer parodies and supplies some outrageous flashes of brilliance to take your breath away.

| Jul 21, 2022

Brazil understands the need for escape when suppressed by the worlds monotony, but it also acknowledges the despair of dreamy ideals. They are, after all, ideals, and by definition unreachable.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 21, 2022

The world building in the film is another of its strongest points. The visual details throughout add so much to the story without ever being too distracting...

| Apr 1, 2021

An uproarious satire of bureaucracy, technology, society, and humanity that proves to be one of the greatest movies of all time, sci-fi or otherwise.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Aug 31, 2020

It's like a stoned, slapstick 1984: a nightmare comedy in which the comedy is just an aspect of the nightmarishness.

| Jan 3, 2018

Inventive, prophetic black comedy; lots of violence, mayhem.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 11, 2015

An energetically quirky social metaphor, political commentary and action/sci-fi farce all balled up into one outrageously enjoyable experience, provided you like the work of Terry Gilliam.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 29, 2012

Gilliam crams the screen with such a proliferation of bizarre and comic details that you'll want to revisit this particular nightmare again and again.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 20, 2011

[A] darkly funny and truly visionary retro-futurist fantasy.

| Mar 12, 2011

Influenced by Kafka, Orwell, and Kubrick, Gilliam's darkly humorous futuristic satire is narratively flawed and excessive in many ways, but it displays its creator's wildly vivid imagination and is intermittently witty.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 10, 2009

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 12, 2009

Brazil is a stinging, Strangelovian satire of the power of the bureaucracy in an Orwellian landscape.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 16, 2008

Brazil serves up one of the most breathtakingly imaginative worlds ever to be put on screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10 | Apr 18, 2008

Brazil -- a black comedy that remains ahead of its time -- is one of the most audacious fantasies ever made.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 30, 2007

Brazil offers a chillingly hilarious vision of the near-future.

| May 30, 2007

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.

| May 30, 2007