You can say this: It is never boring.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 15, 2013

Santa Sangre's content puts it beyond the call of duty for even the most slavishly devoted art-house denizen.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 15, 2013

What Jodorowsky lacks is a sense of humor, in the absence of which his films turn ludicrous.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 15, 2013

Drawing on his training in mime and his fascination with Gnosticism, Jodorowsky converted a story about a bizarre murderer into a grand work of art, full of symbols and imagery that reach beyond language to something primal and original.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 26, 2012

Visionary and haunting, Santa Sangre is a mixture of blood poetry and gobbledygook that keeps springing astonishingly to life.

| Nov 26, 2012

Not as good as his previous El Topo, but pretty eye-opening all the same.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2012

What an extraordinary film: creepy, humid, unwholesome - touched with moments of crazed inspiration.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2012

[A] red-hot Jungian gumbo of clowns, nuns, amputated arms and a dead elephant.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2012

The impression is of an old-school horror with sporadically interesting experimental ornamentation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2012

The Mel Brooks of vulgar surrealism, Jodorowsky's basic principle is that if you throw 30 outrageous ideas at the audience, 2 or 3 are bound to make an impression.

| Feb 26, 2008

A mishmash of religious and Freudian symbolism amid torrential bloodshed topped with Fellini flourishes.

| Mar 16, 2007

Mr. Jodorowsky offers a very polished game of interpretation. His eccentric film relies on the viewer's willingness to play along.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

[A] wild explosion of movie madness that culls from Freud, Jung, and surrealism to create a bloody circus of the mind.

| Mar 10, 2003

The quality that Jodorowsky has above all is passionate sincerity. Apart from his wildly creative style, apart from his images, apart from his story inventions, he has strong moral feelings.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The result is nonsense of a very extravagant, alienating, private sort.

| Jan 1, 2000