At once poetic and brutal, dreamy and nightmarish, beautiful and hideous.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 16, 2024

It's a descent into madness as vertiginous as Heart of Darkness, and a portrait of futility as monumental in its irony as Shelley's Ozymandias.

| Apr 30, 2024

Never has human folly seemed so vivid, rapacious and primeval.

| Apr 30, 2024

Cosmic objets d’art...

| Nov 10, 2023

Aguirre, the Wrath of God shows Herzog's mutual affection and abhorrence for Nature, how it remains ambivalent to human desire and cruel to our often maniacal ambitions.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

I love how Herzog uses the Spanish characters to point out how absurd their conquest is.

| Apr 1, 2021

In the lead is Kinski, with such an unfathomably potent screen presence that all he has to do is stare to evoke dread, as his character grows more delusional by the minute.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 27, 2020

There are some filmmakers who do the work as a job, others because they simply enjoy it. Herzog does it because it is ingrained in his very being.

| Aug 4, 2020

...an irrelevant and sporadically interminable piece of work.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 29, 2020

Aguirre is a compelling piece of historical fiction that lingers in the memory largely because of its lush, claustrophobic atmosphere and the towering presence of Kinski.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 1, 2018

His Spanish conquistadors were no match for the natural splendor and terror of the Amazon, but Herzog was, and he conquered cinema.

| Aug 28, 2018

Aguirre, The Wrath of God is not just about a group of fifteenth-century explorers but is a poignant reflection of the world we still live in.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jun 14, 2015

"Aguirre, The Wrath of God" leaves you feeling as if you are watching a documentary rather than a fictionalized drama. In some ways, what you are seeing is nothing short of the absolute truth.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 29, 2013

Idiosyncratic visionaries don't come any more idiosyncratic or visionary than Werner Herzog.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 16, 2013

Herzog's riveting Brechtian epic about a catastrophic expedition across the Andes and down the Amazon in 1560 is arguably his best work ...

| Jun 9, 2013

The whole movie merges landscapes and character with such force that, once seen, you never forget it.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 7, 2013

Herzog's vision of man disregarding nature and bringing about his inevitable demise is an intoxicating one, and one that demands to be revisited through this wonderfully restored print.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 7, 2013

It looks more magnificent and mad than ever, one of the great folies de grandeur of 1970s cinema, an expeditionary Conradian nightmare like Coppola's Apocalypse Now.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 6, 2013

A journey down river to the mouth of Hell, but also so much more.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 6, 2013

Made for buttons, it's an awesome feat of filmmaking.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 4, 2013