Film critic Peter Travers reviews "El Conde," starring Alfredo Castro, Catalina Guerra and Paula Luchsinger.

El Conde review: Dictators suck in Pablo Larraín's vampiric satire

Power and money will scoop out your soul, and fascism is very hard to kill. The real Pinochet died in 2006, but those particular truths, unfortunately, live on.

★★★☆☆ Chilean director Pablo Larraín has made the treatment of the great, the famous and the powerful his topic of preference, eschewing the lower...

Read Deadline's review of 'El Conde' ('The Count') from director Pablo Larrain premiering at the Venice Film Festival

El Conde is weird and wild in all the right ways.

Pablo Larraín directs this political vampire satire. Read Empire's review.

Pablo Larraín’s skewering of a monstrous figure isn’t quite a stake through the heart

The Chilean director’s Netflix feature is political farce as darkly funny vampire horror, offering an inventive take on why despots keep sinking their fang...

The Chilean director Pablo Larraín follows up his English-language tales of haunted women – ‘Jackie’ and ‘Spencer’ – with this surreal alternate...

Undead and loathing it.

A deserving winner of the Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival

Pablo Larraín's beautiful if faintly anemic horror-satire reimagines the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a world-weary 250-year-old bloodsucker.

Also: A couple runs into horror in gripping ‘The Changeling,’ Jennifer Reeder’s ‘Perpetrator’ is a bizarro (in a good way) teen horror tale.

The third of Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot films pushes their established formula—star casting, lush locations, gothic camp—to the limits.

The Chilean director Pablo Larraín makes the dictator Augusto Pinochet a vampire in this horror spoof.

Pablo Larraín imagines Augusto Pinochet as a long-suffering vampire who wants his afterlife to come to an end, to darkly funny results.

A wickedly funny, blood-soaked portrait of a decaying tyrant.

It sometimes seemed, in the long years of trials, deflections and evasions that comprised the last days of Chile’s murderous looter and dictator Augusto Pi...

Pablo Larraín’s brilliant, pitch-black Netflix take on Chile’s notorious dictator asks the question: What if Augusto Pinochet was a literal monster?

Pablo Larrain's high-concept Netflix drama featuring Augusto Pinochet as an ageing vampire lacks bite

Pablo Larraín's stylish El Conde reimagines Augusto Pinochet as an ancient vampire, but the film never does enough with that novel premise.

The documentary about the legendary 1990s fashion models has a celebratory air, but there’s still some juicy haute couture dirt.

Director Pablo Larraín’s latest film premiered at the Venice Film Festival, creating an alternate universe in which the Chilean tyrant is still alive as a...

In El conde, Pablo Larraín’s darkly comic horror-satire reveals that turning a real-life monster into the protagonist of his own monster movie is an effec...

The director of 'Spencer' & 'Jackie' reimagines an evil dictator as a vampire that just won't die in the great new horror satire, 'El Conde.'

The auteur's deliciously gothic political satire feels urgent.

Pablo Larraín imagines Pinochet as "El Conde," a 250-year-old vampire who proves very hard to kill, even by his own hand.

It’s fun to imagine this piece of agitprop provocation just appearing on the screens of millions of Netflix subscribers across the world.