The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

"Terry Gilliam’s latest announces itself as a movie “25 years in the making and unmaking”, a self-congratulatory bit of text alluding to its tortured path to the screen. The results could well be the director’s best film in a few decades, but that’s more an indicator of his late-career drop off than any great quality here."

"There's enough of a germ of something in Don Quixote that you find yourself shaking your head by its climax, wondering, wait, what were we talking about again?"

"If anything, it's what the director's fans most feared: a lumbering, confused, and cacophonous mess."

"Even if it doesn't always come together, it does entertain, bearing all the hallmarks of Gilliam's gleefully barmiest projects."

"What a dull place the world would be without Terry Gilliam."

"Despite periods of biting comedy and some delightful old-school production heft, this is a project that would have been better left to wither on the vine."

"It is an intensely personal piece of filmmaking, a movie shot through with sneaky, unruly pleasures and no small poignancy."

"Rarely have such brave deeds yielded so meagre a reward."

"There are moments of mad genius here, and a warrior-poet's heart beats under the film's tarnished armour..."