The film itself is a leaden variation on [Herzog's] Aguirre, the Wrath of God. It’s Aguirre without the inspired images or great subject.

| Sep 12, 2023

Much like the frazzled Fitz himself playing Caruso on his beaten up Victrola record player, we sense there is something special in the art we are consuming.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 20, 2022

My reaction is strictly, "So what?”

| Jun 21, 2022

Few motion pictures have captured the frenzied power of obsession with as much veracity.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 18, 2022

A film that moves like a ship through the flow of a river, where Herzog acts as helmsman. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 26, 2021

In between the limits of a curious, original, and unexpected work, Fitzcarraldo drags because of its excessive duration. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 26, 2019

This botched, shapeless, gratuitous, ignoble, neo-colonialist film is so poorly made, written, edited, and directed that its centerpiece, its raison d'tre -- the honest-to-God hauling of a boat up a mountain before your eyes -- is meaningless.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 12, 2017

...captures both the bravery and the danger of Fitzcarraldo's determination.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 26, 2017

"Fitzcarraldo," the latest production from German director Werner Herzog, appears to be an advanced case of directorial self-absorption and self-glorification.

| May 5, 2017

Herzog's film confirms that dreamers and their obsessions can give us otherwise unimaginable moments of pure beauty.

| Original Score: 76/100 | Jul 30, 2014

Herzog charts an ironically circular course around an indulged, benevolent Aguirre; perversely illuminates colonialism with surrealism; and demonstrates once again in his always suspect yet somehow irresistible way that 'only dreamers move mountains'.

| Nov 17, 2011

A abordagem de imerso adotada por Herzog, somada performance intensa de Kinski, resulta numa experincia nica e inesquecvel.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 26, 2010

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 13, 2007

The film may have been intended as an ironic comment on the absurdity of human ambition, but it's an irony that explodes in Herzog's face.

| Feb 9, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 6, 2006

Awesome, hypnotic storytelling, Fitzcarraldo finds this director working in top form

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 24, 2006

If you have a dream, the only way to accomplish it is to face it head on. If your dream requires you to drag a massive boat up a mountainside, do it. So says director Werner Herzog in the bizarre but captivating Fitzcarraldo.

| Jul 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 19, 2005