El Topo (The Mole)

"Jodorowsky dazzles us with such delicate mythological footwork that the violence becomes distanced, somehow..."

"More enjoyable for its unending string of outrages than for its capacity to make coherent sense."

"This is gutbucket Luis Buñuel, surrealism on the cheap, and it hasn't dated well..."

"Without the aid of mind-expanding narcotics... El Topo can't help looking laughably ramshackle, the combination of bad dubbing, shoddy camerawork and over-the-top performances making it pretty much unwatchable by modern standards."

"A dreary, protracted exercise in sadomasochism."

"Violent, visionary, vital."

"The film is by turns comic and profound, hysterical and pompous, fully complex enough to deserve more than a simple yea or nay."

"It remains an aesthetically intoxicating trip."

"It's a bizarre head-trip festival of occult psychedelia, heatstroke visuals, Age-of-Aquarius nude dancing and violence through poster-paint fake blood splattered about the place."

"It's tempting to say they don't make films like this any more, but I'm not sure anyone has ever made them like Jodorowsky."

"El Topo is a good deal more interesting and a good deal less hung up on its own pretensions than all my most intelligent friends had led me to believe."