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OFCS Rating: 86% Fresh |
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| "Oo la la! Sheer cinematic artistry . . . an outrageously creative film." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Betty Jo Tucker |
B | "There will never be a movie about which people will say, 'It's just like Moulin Rouge, only MORE so.'" |
| AboutFilm.com |
| Carlo Cavagna |
4.5/5 | "If you don't get it, you're too old. Dead, probably." |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Christopher Null |
B- | "It's directed with an eye for color, especially the color of rouge, by the pop-musical enthusiast, the Australian,
Baz Luhrmann." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
4/4 | "A remarkable triumph -- alive with creativity and wonder, proving that the medium of film can take us anywhere, and act upon us in any way possible." |
| DustinPutman.com |
| Dustin Putman |
2.5/4 | "As equally obnoxious, headache-inducing, trite and pointless as it is exhilirating and downright fierce." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Ed Gonzalez |
A | "A movie that, while incredibly strange and diverse, actually has some of the clearest vision of anything I've seen in a while." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
D- | "Big, garish, loud and dumb as a box of Rockettes." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
| "If you are convinced that love is both a storm and a safe harbor, then all the theatrics on the screen will send shivers up and down your spine and put a smile on your face." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
A | "If one is able to give oneself over to the heady mix of improbable fantasy that Luhrman paints with his broad brush, MOULIN ROUGE can be something akin to ecstasy." |
| Mixed Reviews |
| Gabriel Shanks |
3/4 | "Historical purists and those who enjoy only sedate films are likely to be infuriated by what Luhrmann has done here, but who cares?" |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3/4 | "The musical genre fits Luhrmann like a glove because both rely on grandiosity and large-scale emotions." |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
9/10 | "If I wanted to make a musical today, I would want it to be like this movie." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
4/4 | "The film isn't so much a reinvention of the musical genre as a reassertion of it." |
| MovieMartyr.com |
| Jeremy Heilman |
| "Works more often than not." |
| Screen It! |
| Jim Judy |
8/10 | "A surprisingly potent love story is placed inside a red-hot bottle of music, dance, colors and vibrancy." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
3/5 | "enough Mardi Gras glitter, fast-cutting movement, and garish color to get anti-musical people to forget they are really watching a musical!" |
| ToxicUniverse.com |
| John A. Nesbit |
6/10 | "Thrilling, glitzy, audacious, daring, silly, spectacular, excessive, dazzling, dizzying, sensational, decadent, respectful, rude, electrifying, stupefying. Take your pick." |
| DVDTown.com |
| John J. Puccio |
4/4 | "Simple y sencillamente la mejor película del año" |
| Moviola |
| Jorge Avila Andrade |
5/5 | "'The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return' a great line from a great movie." |
| 3BlackChicks Review |
| Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel |
5 | "It was beautiful crazy sexy magical dangerous insane and cool. Rich adjectives all, but not very descriptive. Me, I LOVED IT. My companion LOVED IT. We knew we would." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
4/4 | "The Best Film of 2001!" |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
B | ""Moulin Rouge" is itself like a courtesan, a lavishly oufitted, desirable
beauty who excels at artifice." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
9/10 | "A Moulin Rouge le queda chica la pantalla; no sólo la satura, la desborda. Es una fiesta de color, de música, de pasión" |
| Cinenganos |
| Luis Martinez |
2.5/5 | "It feels like heresy to wince at [Luhrman's] movie's frequent tumbles into pedestrian vulgarity." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
4/4 | "A daring and audacious film that may not only awaken the movie musical, but that will also place itself among the best films of this year." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
4/4 | "In spite of a few flaws, Moulin Rouge stands out as the most ambitious, the most daring, and the most entertaining movie of the year." |
| Movie Habit |
| Marty Mapes |
| "Lush in every way imaginable: emotionally, visually, musically." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3.5/4 | "An undeniably imaginative work that is a glorious testament to the limitless and largely untapped possibilities of cinema." |
| TheMovieReport.com |
| Michael Dequina |
3.5/5 | "The musical numbers take you to a place you've never been, the dialog reminds you that Luhrmann doesn't have anything new to say -- just a new way of sticking it together." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
4/4 | "Moulin Rouge may not be easily classifiable, but it is daring and artistic. It is also one of the best pictures of the year." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
3/5 | "It teases the audience with glimpses of dazzling images and snippets of familiar songs but never gives either a chance to connect." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
5/5 | "Uma grande festa para os olhos, ouvidos e mente." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
2/5 | "Everything in it is appropriated from somewhere else." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
C+ | "Like its seductive protagonists, it wants to show us everything it can... but never reveals what we really want to see." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
3/4 | "The first half of "Moulin Rouge" is an exuberant romantic comedy musical, while the second half of the film slacks off into an uneven operatic melodrama." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
| "The numerous, imaginative dance
routines are done with the director's patented hyperkinetic editing, giving
the film the feel of Gilbert and Sullivan on acid." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
9/10 | "This one seems to be dividing people into those who adore it and those who are indifferent. Count me among the former." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Scott Weinberg |
| "A Frankenstein monster covered in glitter" |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Shane Burridge |
C+ | "I’ll take a daring failure like Moulin Rouge! over a prefabricated success like The Mummy Returns any day." |
| Decent Films Guide |
| Steven D. Greydanus |
4/4 | ""Moulin Rouge" is a "very strange, enchanting" film..." |
| Oscar Guy |
| Wesley Lovell |
| ""It's a frenzied, feverish, Fellini-esque fairy tale - all style with no substance."" |
| www.susangranger.com |
| Susan Granger |
| Read review |
| Philadelphia City Paper |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
4/4 | Read review |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
6/8 | Read review |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
| Read review |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| David N. Butterworth |
| Read review |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
| Read review |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Jonathan F. Richards |
| Read review |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
| Read review |
| Wolf Entertainment Guide |
| William Wolf |
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OFCS Rating: 86% Fresh |
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