It's tempting to say they don't make films like this any more, but I'm not sure anyone has ever made them like Jodorowsky.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 10, 2020

It's a bizarre head-trip festival of occult psychedelia, heatstroke visuals, Age-of-Aquarius nude dancing and violence through poster-paint fake blood splattered about the place.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 9, 2020

It remains an aesthetically intoxicating trip.

| Mar 11, 2015

The film is by turns comic and profound, hysterical and pompous, fully complex enough to deserve more than a simple yea or nay.

| Nov 15, 2013

Has lost little of the maddening, bewildering weirdness that made it a seminal midnight-movie phenomenon.

| Original Score: B | Jun 5, 2011

Violent, visionary, vital.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 2, 2007

Without the aid of mind-expanding narcotics though, El Topo can't help looking laughably ramshackle, the combination of bad dubbing, shoddy camerawork and over-the-top performances making it pretty much unwatchable by modern standards.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 10, 2007

One things for sure, they certainly don't make 'em like this any more. Nor, I suspect, would anyone want them to.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 7, 2007

A dreary, protracted exercise in sadomasochism.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 16, 2007

The movie's lure is sensual and unflagging; that's what makes it, for all its arty absurdity, the last great movie of the 1960s.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2007

This is gutbucket Luis Buuel , surrealism on the cheap, and it hasn't dated well -- the blood is patently fake and the gunshots are dubbed.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 26, 2007

You may find it a tiresome, macho relic -- or a ragtag circus wandering through a fantasy realm part Treasure of the Sierra Madre, part Tolkien's Middle-earth.

Full Review | Dec 12, 2006

El Topo would be part of the revolutionary, post-'60s movement of Antonio das Mortes and The Last Movie if its private mythology didn't belong so obviously to its maker's acid subconscious.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 11, 2006

With style constantly contradicting content, and the prevailing mood redolent of egotism and misogyny, it leaves one the feeling of having waded through a full-blown fantasy where even the self-degradation emerges as just another form of narcissism.

Full Review | Jan 26, 2006

El Topo is a good deal more interesting and a good deal less hung up on its own pretensions than all my most intelligent friends had led me to believe.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2005

Jodorowsky dazzles us with such delicate mythological footwork that the violence becomes distanced, somehow, and we accept it like the slaughters in the Old Testament.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 23, 2004

An extravagant hodgepodge of hand-me-down surrealism, mysticism, Italian westerns, theater of cruelty, and Buuel -- more enjoyable for its unending string of outrages than for its capacity to make coherent sense.

| Jul 11, 2002