Carlos [117 points / 12 votes]
"The kind of sprawling epic global blow-out that Olivier Assayas has been flirting with for some time. Edgar RamÃrez, in the male performance of the year, reveals the terrorist, more commonly known as Carlos the Jackal, as a ballsy, grandstanding fraud. The picture can be read in a number of ways, most obviously as an exploration of the endless, labyrinthine world corruption that few fully understand. But the picture becomes truly great about 3 1/2 hours into its 5 1/2-hour running time when it transforms into a sadly banal comedy of a wannabe revolutionary as a typically hen-pecked, bloated, domestic schmuck. Nothing ever changes and everybody ultimately wants the same things." - Chuck Bowen
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