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El Topo
The definitive cult spaghetti western
The definitive cult spaghetti western
Action, Adventure, Drama, Western - 1970
7.4
80%
65
El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.

Details

Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
125 min
Release date:
18 Dec 1970
Country:
MX
Languages:
Spanish
Budget:
$400,000
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
4 wins & 3 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
You may find it a tiresome, macho relic -- or a ragtag circus wandering through a fantasy realm part Treasure of the Sierra Madre, part Tolkien's Middle-earth.
– J. Hoberman,
Village Voice,
12 Dec 2006
rotten:
This is gutbucket Luis Bunuel , surrealism on the cheap, and it hasn't dated well -- the blood is patently fake and the gunshots are dubbed.
– Ty Burr,
Boston Globe,
26 Jan 2007
fresh:
The movie's lure is sensual and unflagging; that's what makes it, for all its arty absurdity, the last great movie of the 1960s.
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out New York,
10 Feb 2007
rotten:
A dreary, protracted exercise in sadomasochism.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Mar 2007
fresh:
The film is by turns comic and profound, hysterical and pompous, fully complex enough to deserve more than a simple yea or nay.
– Jay Cocks,
TIME Magazine,
15 Nov 2013
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