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Brazil, Terry Gilliam's visionary Orwellian fantasy, is an audacious dark comedy, filled with strange, imaginative visuals.
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It's like a stoned, slapstick 1984: a nightmare comedy in which the comedy is just an aspect of the nightmarishness. Jan 2, 2018 | Full Review…
It's like a stoned, slapstick 1984: a nightmare comedy in which the comedy is just an aspect of the nightmarishness.
Pauline Kael
[A] darkly funny and truly visionary retro-futurist fantasy. Mar 12, 2011 | Full Review…
[A] darkly funny and truly visionary retro-futurist fantasy.
Joe Morgenstern
Brazil is a stinging, Strangelovian satire of the power of the bureaucracy in an Orwellian landscape. Oct 16, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Brazil is a stinging, Strangelovian satire of the power of the bureaucracy in an Orwellian landscape.
James Berardinelli
Brazil offers a chillingly hilarious vision of the near-future. May 30, 2007 | Full Review…
Brazil offers a chillingly hilarious vision of the near-future.
Variety Staff
Terry Gilliam's ferociously creative black comedy is filled with wild tonal contrasts, swarming details, and unfettered visual invention -- every shot carries a charge of surprise and delight. May 30, 2007 | Full Review…
Terry Gilliam's ferociously creative black comedy is filled with wild tonal contrasts, swarming details, and unfettered visual invention -- every shot carries a charge of surprise and delight.
Dave Kehr
Fortunately the story of an alternative future is realised with such visual imagination and sparky humour that it's only half way through that the plot's weaknesses become apparent. Feb 9, 2006 | Full Review…
Fortunately the story of an alternative future is realised with such visual imagination and sparky humour that it's only half way through that the plot's weaknesses become apparent.
Inventive, prophetic black comedy; lots of violence, mayhem. Feb 11, 2015 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Inventive, prophetic black comedy; lots of violence, mayhem.
Renee Schonfeld
Brazil is this unique amalgamation of ideas straight out of Terry Gilliam's head that results in something so strange and so unique that it's just genius with a conclusion that is undeniably haunting. Dec 8, 2012 | Rating: 10/10 | Full Review…
Brazil is this unique amalgamation of ideas straight out of Terry Gilliam's head that results in something so strange and so unique that it's just genius with a conclusion that is undeniably haunting.
Chris Sawin
An energetically quirky social metaphor, political commentary and action/sci-fi farce all balled up into one outrageously enjoyable experience, provided you like the work of Terry Gilliam. Jan 29, 2012 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…
An energetically quirky social metaphor, political commentary and action/sci-fi farce all balled up into one outrageously enjoyable experience, provided you like the work of Terry Gilliam.
R.L. Shaffer
Gilliam crams the screen with such a proliferation of bizarre and comic details that you'll want to revisit this particular nightmare again and again. Dec 20, 2011 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Gilliam crams the screen with such a proliferation of bizarre and comic details that you'll want to revisit this particular nightmare again and again.
Jason Best
Influenced by Kafka, Orwell, and Kubrick, Gilliam's darkly humorous futuristic satire is narratively flawed and excessive in many ways, but it displays its creator's wildly vivid imagination and is intermittently witty. Apr 10, 2009 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Influenced by Kafka, Orwell, and Kubrick, Gilliam's darkly humorous futuristic satire is narratively flawed and excessive in many ways, but it displays its creator's wildly vivid imagination and is intermittently witty.
Emanuel Levy
Brazil serves up one of the most breathtakingly imaginative worlds ever to be put on screen. Apr 18, 2008 | Rating: 10/10
Brazil serves up one of the most breathtakingly imaginative worlds ever to be put on screen.
Beth Accomando
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