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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 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

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

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

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

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

Full Review | Aug 17, 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

A bad dream leads to constant conscious nightmares in this wacky, surreal creepshow from over-the-edge Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 12, 2006

His grim explanation of the film's themes and intent comes in handy, particularly during its most stomach-churning excesses and its overlong second act, but he underestimates its artfulness.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Aug 10, 2006

The mad and the sane take a leisurely spin around the dance floor in the Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer's feature-length phantasmagoria.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 9, 2006

Svankmajer's newest, the awesome Lunacy, is inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and the Marquis de Sade (interesting combination, no?).

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 9, 2006

Lunacy is Svankmajer's most political work--or, rather, the one that most explicitly announces its political ambitions.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 31, 2006

Lunacy is billed as a horror film, 'with all the degeneracy of the genre,' but refuses simple straight jacketing.

| Apr 19, 2006