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21 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangBravura narrative filmmaking on a hugely ambitious scale, Carlos is a spectacular achievement.
- 100Village VoiceVillage VoiceCarlos 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.
- 100Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfThough 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.
- 100Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyLos Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyHypnotic and sprawling five-hour-plus piece of cinematic genius.
- 100Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternOne 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.
- 91The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasCarlos is mostly tense and thrilling, revealing the poisonous side of global citizenship.
- 90New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinShot by shot, scene by scene, it's a fluid and enthralling piece of work. I wasn't bored for a millisecond.
- 90MovielineStephanie ZacharekMovielineStephanie ZacharekIt'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.
- 88Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversThe movie crawls hypnotically into the skin of this global assassin and astonishes you with its brazenly violent and sexual audacity.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA rivetingly journalistic account of a scoundrel's rise and fall.