Peter Weir’s The Year of Living Dangerously...is an underrated romantic drama and adventure film set amidst Indonesia’s political unrest of the mid-1960s.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2024

When the two stars are together, the movie has the hectic, under-the-surface energy that is Weir’s brand of magic.

| Sep 19, 2023

[The Year of Living Dangerously] is a romantic and political melodrama set in Indonesia during the Sukarno regime. If it winds up being more romantic than political, who's complaining?

| Feb 27, 2020

The Year of Living Dangerously is a movie that gets stuck halfway because of a lack of imagination, vitality, and danger. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 29, 2019

Memorable in Gallipoli and Road Warrior, Mel Gibson establishes his leading-man status.

| Nov 12, 2018

This is a wonderfully absorbing film.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 19, 2018

Its flaws are unmistakable and some of its beats a little bit rote, but this is much more daunting and daring than it appears, maybe even more than it realises.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 2, 2016

[A] grievously flawed yet compelling tale of political intrigue, certainly a triumph of atmosphere if not of coherent dramatization.

| Aug 4, 2015

A young Mel Gibson anchors a fascinating look at the life of a journalist looking for the great war-era news story.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 15, 2011

Weir and his crew expertly recreate the squalor, poverty, noise, heat and emotion of the pressure cooker that was Indonesia in 1965.

| Jul 7, 2010

Combining political intrigue, steamy romance, and engaging characters, Peter Weir's well-crafted, highly enjoyable adventure is one of the few successful efforts to make a Casablanca-like movie for modern audiences.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 21, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 7, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2006

A curiously languid affair, rather than the breathless Costa-Gavras-style thriller which was the least one might have expected from this kind of material.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2005

The rest of the film hasn't aged nearly as well as Hunt's fun performance...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 20, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 7, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 23, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2004

Biting, tense Weir film--factually based

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 19, 2004