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- 100VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanMake no mistake: Endless Poetry is still very much a Jodorowsky film, dotted with his trademark phantasmagorical conceits, which are like candified bursts of comic-book magic realism. Yet more than any previous Jodorowsky opus, it’s also a work of disciplined and touching emotional resonance.
- 91The Film StageEd FranklThe Film StageEd FranklThe final sequences about loss, and art as a “cure” (in Jodorowsky’s own words), are heart-wrenchingly powerful.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijThe Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijJodorowsky keeps circling back to the question of who he is and how poetry is inextricably linked with how he experiences the world.
- 80EmpireDavid ParkinsonEmpireDavid ParkinsonVibrantly recreating a seminal period in Jodorowsky's personal and artistic development, this bullishly played saga has enough quirky detail, audacious incident and visual panache to sweep the storyline through its less persuasive phases.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt’s a real flight of fancy.
- 70Screen DailyAllan HunterScreen DailyAllan HunterIf the film exasperates and exhausts, which it does, there is also the knowledge that before too long there will also be moments of surreal comedy, freewheeling invention and genuine tenderness.
- 67The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicThe PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicOnce it ends, you may be panting from exhaustion while still appreciating that Endless Poetry is greater than the sum of its parts as it feels naturally necessary and appropriately organic to the series.
- 67The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyOf course, it’s self-indulgent, pushed even further into patience-testing territory by cinematographer Christopher Doyle, who delivers some of the ugliest camerawork of his career.
- 63Slant MagazineDerek SmithSlant MagazineDerek SmithEndless Poetry eventually, like young Alejandro, opens itself up to the world in all of its beauty and complexities.
- 60The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinEndless Poetry may not quite live up to its interminable billing, but there’s certainly lots of it, and a little goes a long way indeed. But a long way is the distance Jodorowsky wants to take you.