Hawks famously opined...a good movie [has] three good scenes [without] annoying the audience. In that, João Rodrigues excels. Will-o’-the-Wisp is a fiercely political indictment of capitalism hidden inside a queer romance that never outstays its welcome.

| Jul 31, 2023

The world that Rodrigues wants to build here finds itself between the erotic and phantasmagorical, aided by skillful, albeit slightly messy, direction.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 29, 2023

Will is really just a goof, without much cumulative or lingering impact. Still, what a goof...

| Jul 6, 2023

An unclassifiable delight, a frothy satire of monarchy and colonialism that has a lot on its plate but never forgets to be fun. Plus it's got musical numbers.

| Jul 3, 2023

Will-o’-the-Wisp has its moments, but this is another movie that thinks bringing up an issue is the same as excavating it.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 29, 2023

There are showstopping musical numbers, plentiful eyefuls of nudity and much more. I loved every 67 minutes of it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 28, 2023

Few cineastes out there are making deliciously defiant art like Rodrigues, and this entry in his catalog is a concentrated shot of his sardonic mastery.

| Jun 2, 2023

One hour is long enough for this arch experimentation, and sometimes Will-o’-the-Wisp gets awfully obscure. But no other film this year (or this decade) has been so visually witty or unconventionally bold.

| May 31, 2023

A surreal poetic manifesto to love and the environment.

| May 31, 2023

Motored by carnal action as much as by personal crises and emotional disintegration, João Pedro Rodrigues drolly explore the terrain where XXX meets existentialism...No matter how weighty the theme, though, Rodrigues is never one for sanctimony.

| May 26, 2023

A prank in fancy dress, a plastic boutonniere that squirts battery acid. The joke is on everyone, particularly the powerful and those holding out hope that the powerful will save the planet.

| May 25, 2023

Rodrigues' musical fantasy is a fascinating cinematic challenge. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 28, 2023

Contemplates reality as a delusion worth living and, therefore, as a privilege that no one has the right to take away from us. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 10, 2022

A brief but fun and memorable film with a queer perspective and a very unique sense of humor. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 8, 2022

[It] delivers ample amounts of firehouse choreography and dangling parts.

| Nov 4, 2022

Above all functions as a love story, even though it has a lot of tricks up its sleeve.

| Oct 24, 2022

It’s altogether hilarious and yet still heartfelt, extremely weird but wonderful regardless—just like the rest of Will-o’-the-Wisp.

| Oct 15, 2022

A beefcake fantasia of masculine camaraderie that’s spills into dance and forest-floor mutual masturbation

| Oct 7, 2022

Rodrigues conceives a lush tree of a story that feeds off multiple genres: absurdist comedy, musical, coming-of-age, interracial romance, and shameless eroticism. And at its roots, lies an intelligent sociopolitical subtext. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 19, 2022

Rodrigues' ability to condense a myriad of genres into a small package is a grand feat.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 18, 2022