Endless Poetry
| Release Date: July 14, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
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Generally favorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
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17
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2
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsJul 14, 2017
Endless Poetry is as galvanizing as a lightning rod because it's equally accepting, and intolerant, a pro-individualist work about celebrating and cultivating yourself. Read full review
100
VarietyOwen GleibermanMay 21, 2016
Make 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. Read full review
91
The Film StageEd FranklMay 26, 2016
The final sequences about loss, and art as a “cure” (in Jodorowsky’s own words), are heart-wrenchingly powerful. Read full review
90
Village VoiceAaron HillisJul 13, 2017
This self-reflexive ode to following muses, finding meaning in nothingness, and transcending the sensitive roadblocks between fathers and sons is loopy, irreverent, and more intensely personal than anything its mystic creator has invented before. Read full review
88
TheWrapDave WhiteJul 14, 2017
The filmmaker’s outsize, and sometimes unnerving, stylistic choices jump into the frame and vanish just as quickly. Read full review
87
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpJul 20, 2017
It’s a rapturous, gorgeous movie about the sad joy of living, the product of a filmmaker who has spent his life wrestling with the human desire to shed banality and elude our mortality, but for all its intellectual ambitions and philosophical gravity, Endless Poetry never reads as stuffy or self-serious. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangJul 13, 2017
To describe Endless Poetry as self-indulgent would be entirely accurate and not even remotely insulting. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawJun 29, 2017
It’s a real flight of fancy. Read full review
80
EmpireDavid ParkinsonDec 26, 2016
Vibrantly 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. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijMay 21, 2016
Jodorowsky keeps circling back to the question of who he is and how poetry is inextricably linked with how he experiences the world. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenJul 26, 2017
Endless Poetry is an oblique road map as much as it is a guiding aphorism. It is also a pretty decent summary of what this film has to offer. Read full review
75
Washington PostPat PaduaJul 27, 2017
Tinged with madness and heartbreak, Endless Poetry is the unmistakable byproduct of, as the character of Alejandro puts it, “a heart capable of loving the entire world.” Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJul 13, 2017
The images in Endless Poetry are arresting and sometimes disturbing, but there is an earnest commitment to ecstasy and authenticity that renders moot any question of offensiveness or exploitation. Read full review
70
Screen DailyAllan HunterMay 21, 2016
If 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. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyJul 12, 2017
Of 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. Read full review
67
The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicMay 21, 2016
Once 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. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineDerek SmithJul 6, 2017
Endless Poetry eventually, like young Alejandro, opens itself up to the world in all of its beauty and complexities. Read full review
60
The TelegraphRobbie CollinJun 29, 2017
Endless 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. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoJul 20, 2017
Mainly for those who already know and like Jodorowsky’s work. Read full review
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