Carlos deserves mention alongside the greatest suspense thrillers ever made.

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

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

A terrifying portrait of an egomaniac who demands absolute obedience, and craves it even more when his power and relevance are drained away.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 2, 2010

It is one of the best pictures of the year.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 4, 2010

Carlos isn't just the best movie of the year, it is arguably one of the single greatest motion picture I have ever seen.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 29, 2010

It's a subtle, ultimately staggering portrayal of a bloody-minded ideologue who convinced only himself.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 28, 2010

Goes on for longer than a kidney transplant op.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 24, 2010

There are ups and downs to international terrorism as a career and Carlos lays them out very fairly.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 22, 2010

A long and complex film (five and a half hours) that seems to go by in a series of vivid flashes.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 22, 2010

It absolutely whizzes by.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2010

Carlos is a television-drama-turned-movie that interestingly injects a boxset quality into its idea of epic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2010

An imaginative but exhausting study of a man who embodied the shifting sands of history.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2010

Ramirez's outstanding performance and Assayes' superb skill in storytelling make this a mini-series not to be missed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 20, 2010

Assayas returns with a hulking, seething, intermittently sublime, five-and-a-half hour film in which he manages to draw together elements from both of these distinct styles.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 20, 2010

A wizardly piece of brutal, romantic filmmaking, it makes old-fashioned beret-based terrorism look a thrill.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 20, 2010

The length of the scene ties in to the unhurried, forensic calm of Carlos as a whole.

| Oct 19, 2010

In its full-length version, Carlos stretches out to a languorous yet surprisingly taut five and a half hours, though it has also been cut down to an equally effective -- though not as detailed -- two-and-a-half-hour version.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 15, 2010

Why turn a movie into a marathon? Because time may be fleeting, but it's mysteriously elastic as well. Once you've committed to an experience as intense as this one, hours become much less than the sum total of their minutes.

| Oct 15, 2010

Carlos is exciting entertainment, even if its subject's two-decade reign of terror is reprehensible.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2010

Carlos steps into the abyss created by the loss of political hope and fills it with blood and terror, playing to the faithful with anti-imperialist rhetoric and a pantomime of that old-time revolutionary feeling.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 15, 2010