The Adventures of Baron Munchausen remains a marvelous visual treat that has aged really well.

| Oct 3, 2024

Against the odds, Gilliam succeeded in creating a positively gargantuan epic teeming with invention and wit.

| Sep 26, 2023

Sacrifices were made at virtually every turn, meaning that The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, for all its grandeur and beauty and imagination, is a severely compromised work … and it shows.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 27, 2023

Stranger than Terry Gilliam’s 1990s hits and less aggressive than his later work, this glorious fantasy was the last time his talents fully flowered.

| Jan 19, 2023

An artist of uncommon visual eccentricity and conceptual audacity, Terry Gilliam is among cinema’s most dedicated fantasists.

| Jan 9, 2023

... "Munchausen" explores the end of a man’s life, asking questions about whether truth matters more than imagination and why impossibility over reason allows for a fuller life.

| Jan 5, 2023

Among the greatest of all fantasy films.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 20, 2022

As the movie goes on, it begins to seem a little too much like Gilliam’s self-defense for being a fantasist beleaguered by the powerful and unimaginative.

| Original Score: C | Aug 31, 2022

A Kleenex film, something someone wishes to discard as quick as possible. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 11, 2022

Like a more family-friendly, comical, delirious take on Sinbad's swashbuckling exploits; a fusion of mythology, fairy tales (particularly Grimms'), history, and legends.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 31, 2020

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a fairy tale of large heart and limitless vision. Like its maker, it staunchly defies the exigencies of reason to pursue a bigger vision of imagination.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 12, 2014

The sheer volume and invention of Gilliam's visual largess sets him apart, and his wit operates for the most part at a dangerously sophisticated level.

| Nov 15, 2013

One of the most voluptuously beautiful films ever imagined, Munchausen naturally assumes that surrealism is preferable, that through make-believe we find the way to true beliefs.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 15, 2013

A lavish fairy tale for bright children of all ages.

| Nov 15, 2013

The carnivalesque chaos is anchored in stage actor John Neville's charismatic lead turn.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 15, 2013

The king is completely out-of-control, and so was Gilliam in making this film. Neither has much of a sense of proportion, but both are hard to ignore.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2013

Superbly photographed and marvelously lighted, this remarkable set piece of art direction and stunning decor cures many of its own ills, including a screenplay that meanders grandly.

| Nov 15, 2013

Its intellectual intent and the physical production seem disconnected, leaving a film that bedazzles the eye even as it bedevils the mind.

Full Review | Nov 15, 2013

It's an opulent odyssey that balances romance, comedy and thrills in one glittering and constantly surprising package.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 15, 2013

For a picture big on in-camera special effects, few of the explosions and set pieces can eclipse the parade of cracking performances.

| Nov 15, 2013