Edgar Ramirez plays Carlos Ther Jackal and was the only one who could do so considering the multilingual skills needed for the role...

| Mar 8, 2023

You may not like this whoring, girlfriend-stealing, cop-killing autodidact, but he's far too relatably, recognizably human to hate.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 10, 2022

While it owes a great debt to The Godfather (a film to which Assayas tips his hat), Carlos stands tall as its own grand achievement on a rare and staggering scale.

| Jun 7, 2019

Edgar Ramírez epitomizes fearlessness and sophistication all while ruling with an iron fist and shedding innocent blood for his political cause.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 31, 2018

There is a sense that the film makers became far too engrossed in their subject matter, whilst forgetting that the point of drama -- as opposed to biography -- is to evoke emotion through a unique connection with its audience.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2018

It's an amazing story, one told with gripping lucidity.

| May 17, 2018

Olivier Assayas' epic account of the life and myth of real-life terrorist Carlos the Jackal is a mesmerizing portrait of a committed activist who transforms himself into a media-hungry rock star of an international terrorist.

| Apr 10, 2016

Though a superbly made and meticulous portrait, Carlos is more interesting than entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 11, 2016

Carlos is a smart piece of filmmaking that delivers thrilling sequences and doesn't pander -- grounding its idealistic character in a sea of contradictions.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 27, 2011

Carlos is relentlessly tense and exciting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2011

Una pelcula narrada con mucho rigor y nervio, que logra reconstruir a la perfeccin la atmsfera y las tensiones geo-polticas de la poca en la que est ambientada. Gran trabajo del venezolano Edgar Ramrez en el rol titular.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2011

It's obviously not meant to be funny, but in a way it is.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 21, 2011

it's this downtime that finally, finally begins to show some cracks in Carlos' armor. It slowly becomes clear that Carlos is nothing but surface.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 15, 2011

| Original Score: A- | Jan 15, 2011

Carlos deserves mention alongside the greatest suspense thrillers ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 7, 2011

Absorbing

| Jan 3, 2011

The term "epic" often gets bandied around to describe movies that don't really fit the description. But Olivier Assayas' Carlos is the real deal...

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 21, 2010

Mesmerizing 5-hour-30-minute biopic.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 19, 2010

Carlos was like a terrorist version of James Bond, a high-living, jet-setting playboy terrorist for hire.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 9, 2010

It manages to deliver a steady stream of action thrills even as it reconsiders the international terrorism of the 1960s and '70s for lessons important today.

| Dec 3, 2010