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www.timeout.com - : Huston opts for straightforward narrative, telling the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic English ex-diplomat who embraces his own destruction in Mexico shortly before the outbreak of World War II. more...
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www.channel4.com - : A novel that is so strange and hallucinatory that it's often hard to tell exactly what's supposed to be happening, is literalized by Huston into hard, brassy explicitness. The result is intense, but unintoxicating. more...
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4/5
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : The remarkable thing about UNDER THE VOLCANO is that it doesn't resort to any of the usual tricks that movies use when they portray drunks. There are no trick shots to show hallucinations. No spinning cameras. No games with focus. more...
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4/4
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