Acknowledged as the Bosnian director Emir Kusturica's masterpiece, Underground is a hallucinogenic comic romp through Yugoslavia's troubled history over 50 years.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2016

Delirious in its excess, but never less than ferociously intelligent and operatically emotional, Underground represents one of those rare, exhilarating moments when an outsize artistic vision is fueled by an apparently unlimited budget. Not to be missed.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 23, 2014

A triumph of mise en scene mated to a comic vision that keeps topping its own hyperbole.

| Sep 23, 2014

A rich, vibrant, visually spectacular survey of the changes the place has gone through during the past 50 years.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2014

Kusturica takes us from wacky farce to harrowing grief to lyrical fantasy to bloody horror. To ignore any side of Underground is to do it injustice.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 23, 2014

Underground is a bizarre, often repellent anti-war parable that takes forever to state the obvious but hits some scattered high notes on the way.

| Sep 23, 2014

On balance, Kusturica is sturdier on style than substance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 18, 2012

Emir Kusturica's epic black comedy about Yugoslavia from 1941 to 1992 is a three-hour steamroller circus that leaves the viewer dazed and exhausted, but mightily impressed.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2009

There's no denying Kusturica's technical virtuosity as he mounts one hectic, large-scale set-piece after another, but in the end it's hard to fathom the exact purpose of this epic allegory.

| Feb 9, 2006

Emir Kusturica's tragic-farce Underground may be the most important film of the last 25 years.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 21, 2003

A sprawling, rowdy, vital film laced with both outrageous absurdist dark humor and unspeakable pain, suffering and injustice.

| Feb 14, 2001

It's a heady mix, charmingly idealistic and bracingly clear-eyed, powerful and sad, and it sticks with you, and in you.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Feverish, whimsical allegory elevated by moments of brilliant clarity.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The film can be both frenetic and strained. But it also has has a great deal of power and can be quite haunting.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000