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The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

2018

Terry Gilliam

Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Olga Kurylenko, Stellan Skarsgård ...

5.3

3,596

Adventure. Comedy Toby, a disillusioned advertising executive, becomes pulled in to a world of time jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes him to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"It's a loud, belligerent, barely coherent mess (...) The film is frustratingly unclear or downright inconsistent on many points (...) [Gilliam lacks] many of the fundamental skills expected of a director"	NEG
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"The movie becomes a tiresome succession of unfunny slapstick clashes and dramatic arcs that go nowhere."	NEG
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"[It] is sloppy, but not a total disappointment (...) 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' falls short of crystalizing into a satisfying narrative whole"	NEU
United States	Ben Croll The Wrap	"[It] is an awful lot of fun. Of course, the fun can be far from perfect. The film is also messy and hysterical in places"	NEU
United States	Jessica Kiang The Playlist	"It is certainly too long and too messy, too indulgent in some parts (...) The surprise of it is that there are times (...) when it really does work"	NEU
United Kingdom	Ed Potton The Times	"[It] is beautiful and terrible at the same time (...) (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It is a film of sweet gaiety and cheerful good nature, an interesting undertow of poignancy, and with a lovely leading turn from Jonathan Pryce (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Driver and Pryce fling themselves at everything with beady resolve, just as Gilliam gives it everything he has. Around 50 percent of it sticks (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"[It] succumbs to the same indulgences and weaknesses that have plagued his recent movies (...) [An] erratic, increasingly frustrating oeuvre"	NEG

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