"For whatever reason, Willie Nelson's Daniel Lanois-produced Teatro has existed in a vacuum in his catalog. A scant year or so before it was released - and its recording sessions filmed in an old movie theater in Oxnard, California by Wim Wenders - Nelson issued the now classic Spirit. Island Records, which had no idea what to do with the earlier record's unsentimental, moody, sparsely arranged songs, faced the same unwieldy task here ... With its cinematic companion attached, it rightfully establishes its place as one of the true highlights in Nelson's massive catalog"