Raw materials are mingled with staged performance, context is scrambled, all of it is transformative

| Aug 28, 2009

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

Herzog's use of cinema defies the very fabric of our known world.

| Original Score: A | Jul 3, 2007

Herzog remains a one-off in German cinema - eccentric, infuriating, cherishable - and nothing in this will detract from his legend.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 15, 2007

An unlikely combination, but then Herzog never ceases to surprise and here, despite some dull patches, does so with an off-centre film of an almost dreamlike quality.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 15, 2007

It's a long, strange trip, alternately banal and visionary.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 15, 2007

This is just further proof that Herzog can make a film about anything, and indeed, from anything.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 15, 2007

It's not helped by a watery soundtrack that sounds like chill-out trance played on a nose flute.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 15, 2007

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| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 15, 2007

Despite the film's playful humour, there's also a deadly seriousness to The Wild Blue Yonder, for it shows man's insignificance faced with the sheer vastness of nature.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 15, 2007

Sci-fi nuts, stoners and conspiracy theorists might get a kick out of this. But even Herzog fans will find this mix of found footage and Kinski-lite diatribe as frustrating as it's fascinating.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 15, 2007

A scientific context is offered by interviews with researchers expounding modes of intergalactic travel, but the real pleasures are in the organic beauty of deep spaces and the ambiguous position of the humans suspended in them.

| Jun 14, 2007

Though far from perfect, The Wild Blue Yonder does have something to say about human folly and it makes its statement in an unusual and thought-provoking way.

| Mar 1, 2007

I don't know quite what Werner Herzog has been smoking all these decades, but more directors need to be smoking it.

| Original Score: A | Feb 17, 2007

This wacky 'science fiction fantasy' (2005) by Werner Herzog looks like it was made for a few thousand bucks, but it's held aloft by the filmmaker's inexhaustible curiosity and wonder.

| Feb 16, 2007

The Wild Blue Yonder is at times playful and inventive, at others simplistic and silly. Ultimately, Werner Herzog's free-form, idiosyncratic devolution of the documentary is beautiful but dull.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 15, 2007

[A] bizarre, beautiful and slightly tedious amalgamation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 1, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 2, 2007

[A] maddeningly pretentious docu-fiction mash-up.

| Nov 16, 2006

while the narrative relies on some pretty goofy science, it's nonetheless a fascinating story to hear told

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2006