Rating: C -- A rose-colored portrait of a national hero, "The Liberator" eschews political or emotional complexity in favor of simple-minded cheerleading. Full Review

THE LIBERATOR is set in South America at the turn of the 19th century, where tangled junglescapes, mossy colonial architecture and butterfly-inhabited meadows abound. But within all that beauty lies tyranny...

Rating: 2.5/5 -- How disappointing that a movie about challenging authority should be such a slave to convention. 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

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

Rating: 2/5 -- Édgar Ramírez is electifying as Simón Bolívar, the Venezuelan land owner turned warrior. But even Ramírez cannot liberate this movie from a clichéd script. Full Review