If the film is a failure, it fails in the most fascinating, admirable, and lyrical ways.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2022

The title has it backwards. The proper treatment of Salt and Fire is to burn it to nothing and salt the ashes.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 24, 2020

Though his documentaries remain as vital as any in his career, Salt and Fire signals the further deterioration of Werner Herzog as a narrative filmmaker.

| Original Score: D+ | Dec 27, 2018

Even though it loses steam as it approaches the end, the final scenes of Salt and Fire show Herzog at his most playful and highlight those unique sensibilities that make him unlike any other filmmaker ever.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2018

The man, so wonderful to listen to in his non-fiction films as he narrates away in his deliciously thick German accent, has a tin ear for English dialogue spoken by actors.

| Sep 30, 2017

... sure enough Herzog's continued thematic exploration of the often fraught cohabitation between man and nature comes through.

| Sep 14, 2017

Suffers from stilted dialogue, tangential conversations that lead both everywhere and nowhere, plot threads and characters left hanging, and committed but constrained performances.

| Aug 30, 2017

Salt and Fire, you see, is well-made folly. And like cult camp classics of yore, it rolls out enough portent and absurdity to leave you snickering.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 28, 2017

A visionary director's creative and challenging look at an ecological disaster.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 10, 2017

Usually a director of fascinating films and documentaries about humans clashing with their environments, director Werner Herzog delivers a misfire with this puzzling, uncentered drama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 9, 2017

The final reels are so compelling it's almost worth sitting through everything that came before. Almost.

| Apr 8, 2017

A very peculiar misfire for Herzog, but still kinda interesting.

| Apr 7, 2017

Looking just like a dressed-up Neil Breen joint, Salt and Fire becomes, at its best, Herzog's version of camp; at its worst, unwitting self-parody.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 7, 2017

In imbuing what might otherwise be a straight-forward environmental thriller with his signature sense of artistry, Herzog has succeeded in creating a film without parallel.

| Apr 7, 2017

Salt and Fire is a hodgepodge of inexplicable characters, half-considered ideas, and a rambling plot.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 6, 2017

Herzog and co. seem totally tone deaf to how gross all of it is, which is much grosser than Gael Garca Bernal screaming about diarrhea, which is actually pretty funny.

| Original Score: 4.5/10 | Apr 6, 2017

Like something you peer at rather than absorb, "Salt and Fire" is both awful and a tad fascinating.

| Apr 6, 2017

Werner Herzog's latest half-hearted return to narrative cinema is more excited by its stunning landscape than the life inside it.

| Apr 6, 2017

Audiences unfamiliar with Herzog will be largely baffled by this eccentric and meandering eco-drama, but aficionados will find much to enjoy here.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 6, 2017

Perhaps the endeavor doesn't stitch together as cleanly as it could, but it's always 100% Herzog.

| Original Score: C | Apr 6, 2017