One of the greatest films of the Sixties...

| Nov 30, 2023

Of all the Alejandro Jodorowsky films, this may be the Jodorowskiest.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 29, 2022

What The Holy Mountain depicts, rather than a narrative, is a series of tests and learning experiences that the fool will go through in order to attain enlightenment.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 19, 2020

Hardly a moment passes in this movie without a situationist display of outrageousness; it is a dream tableau of the weird and occasionally wonderful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 24, 2020

An acid trip through the poison-tipped nettles of Jodorowsky's subconscious.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 27, 2019

A rambling stream-of-consciousness quest that - in its final, self-conscious act - celebrates the primacy of the filmed image.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 8, 2011

starts off with great promise but quickly descends into a kind of monotonous spiral of escalating pretension and wearisome shock tactics

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 16, 2011

So loaded with symbols and religious references that the frames of the films flash by as if Jodorowsky were shuffling a deck of his beloved tarot cards...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 16, 2011

The Old and New Testament scrambled as a most sustained 'shroom hallucination, one sight at a time out of Alejandro Jodorowsky's bottomless tank

| Feb 12, 2010

Jodorowsky's 1973 surreal fantasy is just too much to dig through.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 13, 2007

Not even Buuel with a brainful of Woodstock's bad brown acid could have made something this gloriously screwy.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Apr 21, 2007

Alejandro Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain is a dazzling, rambling, often incoherent satire on consumerism, militarism and exploitation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2007

Not the unsubtle 'what' he is saying in 'The Holy Mountain,' but the individualized 'how,' is filmmaker Jodorowsky's strength.

| Apr 15, 2007

This is an extraordinary visual concoction, loaded with stunning primary colors, anti-religious caricatures drawn from Diego Rivera and a succession of dreamlike, grotesque vistas worthy of Dal at his most deranged.

| Apr 11, 2007

Jodorowsky loves to confront the viewer with endless brutality and grotesque decadence and degradation, but here he expresses it with a rich, densely visual imagination.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 16, 2007

Despite all its fanciful Buuelesque surrealism and echoes of Tod Browning's Freaks, it's not that far removed from the pop-culture movies that surround it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2007

So extreme in its sacrilege that it achieves a kind of sacredness, The Holy Mountain is a transcendental feast of the grotesque and the sublime.

| Original Score: A | Feb 8, 2007

Neither for the faint of heart or the linear of thinker, The Holy Mountain qualifies both as a fascinating period relic and an enduringly transfixing jaw-dropper.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 2, 2007

Halfway through we're introduced to nine industrialists and politicians -- they narrate their heinous biographies in Godardian voiceover -- who embark up the title mountain to become immortal. Dude.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 26, 2007

Jodorowsky's greatest and most ambitious midnight movie, a wickedly outrageous masterpiece that towers over its better-known precursor El Topo... an ingeniously overstimulated film that could never be replicated today.

| Oct 10, 2006