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

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

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

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

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

It's slightly tedious going, but you certainly get plenty to look at, what with costumed frogs and lizards re-enacting the conquest of Mexico.

| Feb 9, 2006

More overtly religious and New Agey than Jodorowsky's other pictures, it describes a spiritual quest and slings in outrageous shocks at every opportunity, yielding many eyefuls and some occasional food for thought.

| Nov 13, 2002