Inferno is yet another entertaining philosophical musing -- the second offering this year, after his Lo, and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World -- from the master storyteller. And I couldn't be happier.

| Jul 17, 2020

It's difficult to discern whether this is a documentary about volcanoes which also explores human nature and spirituality or vice versa...[in] a Werner Herzog film, it almost doesn't matter

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 12, 2018

Unsurprisingly, Into The Inferno turns out to be less about the science behind volcanology than about the infinite philosophical inquiries that have ruptured from the souls of those who live in close proximity to them.

| Dec 5, 2018

His methods may be a bit unconventional, but when he keep churning out brilliant, thought-provoking pieces of cinema like Into the Inferno, perhaps Herzog is the only sane person on this madhouse of a planet.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 1, 2018

To watch one of Herzog's films is to enter into a state of madness, the only reasonable response to the world portrayed on the other side of the director's camera, an extension of his own perception.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 9, 2018

The wild, near-suicidal extremes of his first volcano movie, La Soufriere (1976), have been replaced by a steadier, more "educational" attitude, though one still informed by Herzog's obsession with the mystical, bizarre and unseen.

| Sep 29, 2017

It is with this realistic yet pessimistic tone that Herzog ends his entertaining, fairly instructive and well-rounded film.

| Sep 14, 2017

Another filmmaker would be content to shoot some crazy exploding lava and call it a day. Herzog, though, finds more.

| Aug 22, 2017

'Into the Inferno' is fascinated by the impermanent nature of our world, and is perhaps a strong reminder to appreciate what we have while we have it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 19, 2017

Five wonderfully captivating documentaries that have been pressed together into one very weird shape.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 11, 2016

The film captures enough remarkable footage of hot magma bursts and erupting volcanoes to make any straight-up nature documentary filmmaker jealous. But Herzog's interests are cultural. And it's all the more fascinating. as seen through his lens.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2016

Besides the extraordinary images of volcanic landscapes, the film is, thanks to Oppenheimer's skill as an interviewer, a work of comparative anthropology.

| Nov 4, 2016

As well as scientific facts and figures, it's the "magical side" of things which Herzog seeks to elucidate.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2016

Oppenheimer brings the enthusiasm and the science; and Herzog, his gravelly baritone bringing to mind the voices of volcano gods seeking vengeance, provides the narration.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 2, 2016

Fascinating docu explores volcanoes and scientific passion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 1, 2016

Into the Inferno feels unusually episodic by Herzog's typically cohesive standards.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 1, 2016

...any one of these volcanoes and the culture surrounding it could have sustained an entire solo feature. What we have here is a bit more of an appetizer sampler

| Oct 28, 2016

A series of portraits of obsessed people, each painted by one of the most likable obsessives in cinema.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 28, 2016

Into the Inferno is a strong argument for feeling a sense of wonder in the face of things you don't understand.

| Oct 28, 2016

Into the Inferno may be relatively minor Herzog -- it's sweet and rambling rather than laser-bolt intense like Fitzcarraldo or Grizzly Man . But it is enormously satisfying, filled with wisdom, insight and molten lava.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 28, 2016