Wickedly funny and astonishingly conceived, the film is a nonstop cavalcade of shocks, surprises and enchantments. I loved every minute of it.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 18, 2007

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 1, 2007

As pure cinema, there's no denying the power of Lunacy, although mostly that power can best be described as, well, sadistic.

| Apr 16, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2007

Svankmajer continues to push at the boundaries of convention, juxtaposing blasphemy and torture while mocking the possibility of transcendence.

| Feb 22, 2007

A horse-drawn carriage crossing an expressway overpass promises a more subversive ride than Svankmajer delivers.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 27, 2006

While Lunacy leaves you with the impression that Svankmajer is more expressive with cutlets than he is with his atypically human-dominated dreamscape, some of the images are doozies.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 26, 2006

This is one of those deliriously unhinged movies that looks, feels and sounds genuinely insane, for all the right artistic reasons.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 13, 2006

The definition of liberation as the act of being delivered from the hands of one lunatic into the hands of another who is equally mad remains universal in its political and social applications.

| Original Score: B | Oct 12, 2006

For all the arresting visuals, Svankmajer's morose depiction of the blurry line between madness and sanity is surprisingly pedestrian.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 29, 2006

At nearly two hours Lunacy becomes repetitive, at first ingeniously and then with a slowly dulling edge. The meat parade ceases to shock.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 8, 2006

Yes, the film's undeniable horror lies in the lunacy of filmmaking, not the story.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 7, 2006

Fans of movies about inmates who take over an asylum -- King of Hearts and Marat/Sade are prime examples -- will be amused by this surrealistic take on the subject punctuated by animated interludes featuring, of all things, dancing meat.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 25, 2006

These ideas are twisted enough that they still hold a certain kind of interest.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2006

For all its visual surprises and visceral shocks, Lunacy is still the kind of film that is easier to admire than it is to actually like.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 18, 2006

Only a master filmmaker could make such a fantastically sustained voyage into the Land of Questioning Reality, God and Propriety, and everything else we try to organize our sensibilities around.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 18, 2006

Lunacy lacks the teeth to be truly audacious. Yet its leisurely pacing and silly send-ups of psychosexual perversions make it an amusing enough gothic comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 18, 2006

Lunacy feels programmatic, the repetitive working through of an idea that had me checking my watch.

Full Review | Aug 17, 2006

...subversive and horrific fun.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 13, 2006

Connoisseurs of the disgustingly visceral will find Jan Svankmajer hardly mellowed at 72. Lunacy is dark, scary, and yucky -- even by the Czech animator's own standards.

Full Review | Aug 12, 2006