The images of Brimstone and Glory are cosmic. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 8, 2022

[Director Viktor Jakovleski] manages to capture the sensory experience in order to project it on the screen and generate empathy with all the people of San Juan Tultepec along the way. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 30, 2021

A documentary firmly dedicated to exposing the dangers and ecstasies of pyrotechnics. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 7, 2020

Not surprisingly, the film is visually enthralling (director Viktor Jakovleski uses traditional and GoPro cameras to capture the action), although it could have used more research or characters to follow.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 28, 2020

Out of the frying pan...

| Jul 14, 2019

The imaginative use of stylistic options interweaves a mytho-poetic layer into a straightforward, albeit astonishing, slice of Mexican religious folk culture.

| Apr 30, 2019

There is no denying that this is a wholly original, immensely pleasurable experience that has no qualms about its lack of intellectualizing.

| Dec 5, 2018

It contains some of the most hypnotic and beautiful imagery I've ever seen.

| Nov 8, 2018

This is a dizzying, beautiful, awe-inspiring and deeply wonderful film.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 29, 2018

The heady mix of beauty and lunacy will have you giggling in amazement.

| Oct 24, 2018

One jaw-dropping sequence after another.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 21, 2018

The film itself is a sensory experience that takes us through the preparations of explosives and architecture.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 5, 2018

But [Brimstone & Glory] deftly captures the skill, passion and peril behind the fireworks, as well as the love of a family whose livelihood is rooted in this booming trade.

| Aug 24, 2018

The cinematography - some by drones, some created with a Phantom High Speed Camera - is astonishing, giving us hypnotic slow-motion views of incendiary devices exploding and glorious nighttime scenes of dancers stamping.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 24, 2018

A mesmerizing and enchanting vérité achievement.

| Feb 9, 2018

The best part of the documentary is that it dispenses with talking heads.

| Original Score: B | Dec 20, 2017

The film's visual style emphasises the transcendent spectacle...

| Dec 15, 2017

The fireworks we see are amazing, and Jakovleski leaves it to us to decide what to make of this town's obsession with lighting up the sky.

| Nov 30, 2017

A movie that repays being seen on a big reflective screen, one on which the image is projected rather than one from which the image emanates.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 22, 2017

The film ... has a wandering attention span and grows monotonous even at barely more than one hour.

| Nov 21, 2017