Rating: 5/10 -- Surely, history was nowhere as simple as The Liberator makes it. Full Review

Rating: 2.5/4 -- Arvelo, a Venezuelan like Bolivar, touches many of the essential bases in Bolivar's story. But, perhaps inevitably, he is only able to achieve little more than mere touches. Full Review

Simple enough for audiences who know nothing about Bolívar, poetic enough for those who grew up reading about El Libertador in school books. Full Review

Despite the super-fast pace of The Liberator, which is about the rise and fall of the 19th-century South American warrior and anti-colonist Simón Bolívar, Ramirez always finds a way to give his words and moments weight. Full Review

Rating: 2/5 -- The Liberator is a nicely framed, highly romanticized, and undeniably dry portrait of a revolutionary. Full Review

An underwhelming screenplay is done no favors by Arvelo's flavorless direction, and much less by Gustavo Dudamel's wall-to-wall, dot-every-i score. Full Review

Rating: 2.5/4 -- "The Liberator" shoehorns the epic life of early 19th-century South American revolutionary Simón Bolivar into two hours of intermittently powerful cinema. Full Review