90
An ideal film for movie buffs, who are bound to delight in each new misfortune even as they sympathize with the documentarians' sometimes inflated vision of a tortured genius at work.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
70
Squirmily funny documentary.
80
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
Like rubbernecking motorists, we can't help but watch with lurid fascination.
75
San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann
Captures one of the wildest, most heartbreaking episodes in Gilliam's career.
75
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
Lost in La Mancha basically catches "Don Quixote" in free fall…It's our loss nonetheless. Gilliam is one of the great film fantasists of our age, and one expects he would have done Cervantes proud.
60
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
The film should be required viewing for all aspiring filmmakers, but the story's road-accident appeal is universal.
80
At once bitterly funny and devastating, Lost In La Mancha sides with Gilliam in form and spirit, piecing together the train wreck with snaky humor and interludes that cleverly mimic his Monty Python collage animations.
20
The New Republic by Stanley Kauffmann
So this is not, as vaunted, a documentary about a film destroyed by temperaments and tizzies. It is the account of a medical catastrophe that could have spoiled the opening of a supermarket.
80
Washington Post by Stephen Hunter
The documentary is fascinating, but hardly enjoyable. It's like watching ants eat an elephant.
100
Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
Wildly sad, funny and terrific documentary.