Salvador
Hemdale | Release Date: April 23, 1986 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
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Generally favorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
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12
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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60
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
The tale of American photojournalist Richard Boyle’s adventures in strife-torn Central America, Salvador is as raw, difficult, compelling, unreasonable, reckless and vivid as its protagonist. Read full review
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CineVueChristopher Machell
The editing, too, is rough around the edges, but it all adds to the sense of madness that pervades El Salvador – a sense that only grows the more intense the further that Boyle journeys into this Central American heart of darkness. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneGene Siskel
Wexler told his story in credible human terms. Writer-director Stone felt the need to jazz up his action with wacked-out characters who belong in a ''Saturday Night Live'' sketch. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
Stone works some imaginative changes on the usual formulas of propagandistic fiction—Boyle is anything but the usual bland audience-identification figure, waiting around to be converted to the ideological position of the filmmakers—but as a director, he still didn't have the chops to bring off such an ambitious, multilayered project: the picture lunges into hysterical incoherence every few minutes, and Stone must resort to platitudinous simplifications to clear things up. It's lively, though, to say the very least. Read full review
40
The New York TimesWalter Goodman
The main characters tend to be either grotesques or stereotypes, who keep getting into incoherent arguments, composed largely of variations on America's favorite epithet...For a movie with pretensions to laying out political realities, the colorful Salvador is black and white. Read full review
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