Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

One of the high points of last month's Telluride Film Festival was, as I wrote at the time, spending 5½ hours in a darkened theater-with one short break around the four-hour mark-to watch Olivier Assayas's shocking and edifying epic.

Los Angeles Times by Betsy Sharkey

Hypnotic and sprawling five-hour-plus piece of cinematic genius.

Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf

Though it runs an epic five-and-a-half hours (it was made for French TV), Carlos books like no film since "Goodfellas." You will not be bored, ever.

Village Voice

Carlos is nevertheless a movie that one can somehow remember vividly for months. Much of this power is due to the whiplash widescreen cinematography (oft-mistaken for DV), the hopped-up editing, and, not least, Ramirez's aptly arrogant, fully transfixing, Method-style turn.

Variety by Justin Chang

Bravura narrative filmmaking on a hugely ambitious scale, Carlos is a spectacular achievement.

Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

One of the high points of last month's Telluride Film Festival was, as I wrote at the time, spending 5½ hours in a darkened theater-with one short break around the four-hour mark-to watch Olivier Assayas's shocking and edifying epic.

Los Angeles Times by Betsy Sharkey

Hypnotic and sprawling five-hour-plus piece of cinematic genius.

Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf

Though it runs an epic five-and-a-half hours (it was made for French TV), Carlos books like no film since "Goodfellas." You will not be bored, ever.

Village Voice

Carlos is nevertheless a movie that one can somehow remember vividly for months. Much of this power is due to the whiplash widescreen cinematography (oft-mistaken for DV), the hopped-up editing, and, not least, Ramirez's aptly arrogant, fully transfixing, Method-style turn.

Variety by Justin Chang

Bravura narrative filmmaking on a hugely ambitious scale, Carlos is a spectacular achievement.

Village Voice by Rob Nelson

Carlos is nevertheless a movie that one can somehow remember vividly for months. Much of this power is due to the whiplash widescreen cinematography (oft-mistaken for DV), the hopped-up editing, and, not least, Ramirez's aptly arrogant, fully transfixing, Method-style turn.

Salon by Andrew O'Hehir

It's a tremendously absorbing blend of history, journalism and drama. As soon as it was over, I wanted to watch it again.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Liam Lacey

A preening terrorist for the Me generation, his primary drive was vanity and his main professional asset an absence of empathy.

Chicago Reader by J.R. Jones

I haven't seen the shorter version, but I would hate to lose one moment of the gripping 66-minute sequence-really the heart of the movie-in which Carlos plots and executes his spectacular 1975 raid on the meeting of OPEC ministers in Vienna.

Miami Herald by René Rodríguez

Part of the accomplishment of Carlos is the sheer accumulation of detail the movie amasses, and the longer running time gives you a deeper sense of the terrorist lifestyle, and when and why Ilich gradually succumbed to ego and self-glorification without realizing it.

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

Carlos is mostly tense and thrilling, revealing the poisonous side of global citizenship.

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

Carlos is mostly tense and thrilling, revealing the poisonous side of global citizenship.

Movieline by Stephanie Zacharek

It's a tricky feat, channeling the glamour of a famous international terrorist without glamorizing him. But damned if French filmmaker Olivier Assayas doesn't pull it off with Carlos.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein

Shot by shot, scene by scene, it's a fluid and enthralling piece of work. I wasn't bored for a millisecond.

Movieline by Stephanie Zacharek

It's a tricky feat, channeling the glamour of a famous international terrorist without glamorizing him. But damned if French filmmaker Olivier Assayas doesn't pull it off with Carlos.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein

Shot by shot, scene by scene, it's a fluid and enthralling piece of work. I wasn't bored for a millisecond.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

The movie crawls hypnotically into the skin of this global assassin and astonishes you with its brazenly violent and sexual audacity.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

The movie crawls hypnotically into the skin of this global assassin and astonishes you with its brazenly violent and sexual audacity.

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

A rivetingly journalistic account of a scoundrel's rise and fall.

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

A rivetingly journalistic account of a scoundrel's rise and fall.