Critic Reviews

• Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

  A sprawling, rowdy, vital film laced with both outrageous absurdist dark humor and unspeakable pain, suffering and injustice.

• Janet Maslin, New York Times

  Feverish, whimsical allegory elevated by moments of brilliant clarity.

• Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee

  For anyone who's an aficionado of film, this is pure, unadulterated bliss.

• Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle

  The film can be both frenetic and strained. But it also has has a great deal of power and can be quite haunting.

• Jake Euker, F5 (Wichita, KS)

  Brilliant, outrageous filmmaking. Underground is touching, hilarious, and new.

• Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine

  Emir Kusturica's tragic-farce Underground may be the most important film of the last 25 years.

• , Boxoffice Magazine

  A sprawling, imaginative, bold and impressive work.

• Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

  Offers a zany overview of the treacherous path of politics in Yugoslavia leading to the outbreak of civil war in 1992.

• Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

  It's a snoozer.

• Jim Ridley, Nashville Scene

  One of the great moviegoing experiences of recent years -- a work of staggering sadness, vitality, and comic invention that's as awe-inspiring a spectacle in its own unhinged way as Titanic.

• Jeff Vice, Deseret News, Salt Lake City

  So passionate, so exciting and so very odd at times that most of its obvious faults can be forgiven.

• Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle

  It's a heady mix, charmingly idealistic and bracingly clear-eyed, powerful and sad, and it sticks with you, and in you.

• Bruce Kirkland, Jam! Movies

  One of the most ribald, risky and madcap war movies ever filmed.

• Barbara Shulgasser, San Francisco Examiner

  I suppose Kusturica can justify the 167-minute length by the historical breadth of the movie, but it simply doesn't sustain one's interest, significant or not.

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