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

| Jan 3, 2018

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

| Mar 12, 2011

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

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.

| Feb 9, 2006

A superb example of the power of comedy to underscore serious ideas, even solemn ones.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2003

For all its occasional long-windedness and visual dazzle, Brazil may be the Strangelove of the 1980s.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A glimmering hunk of fractured brilliance riddled with Orwellian paranoia encased in a production design seemingly pieced together from the shared dreams of Franz Kakfa and Salvador Dali.

| Jan 1, 2000

The movie is very hard to follow. I have seen it twice, and am still not sure exactly who all the characters are, or how they fit.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

'Imagination' is this futuristic film's middle name.

| Jan 1, 2000

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.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000