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Movie Overview
Cast
• Anna Wintour
Director
• R.J. Cutler
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
The September Issue (2009)

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OFCS Rating: 62% Fresh
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4/5
"A disarmingly and deliciously unexpected celebration of matriarchs with attitude."  Eye for Film  Amber Wilkinson

2.5/5
"seems already dated"  Filmcritic.com  Chris Barsanti

A
"Documentarian R.J. Cutler manages the impossible--revealing the notoriously aloof Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's personality behind the ice queen facade."  ColeSmithey.com  Cole Smithey

3.5/5
"From watching the new documentary 'The September Issue,' it's hard to tell if novelist and former Anna Wintour assistant Lauren Weisberger was unfair to the editor when she created the relentlessly cruel Miranda Priestly."  eFilmCritic.com  Dan Lybarger

C
"Plenty of glitz but precious little substance...an oddly toothless portrait of a bruising business."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

2/4
"sporadically successful, but mostly feels stranded at the surface, possibly because its insider-ism gets the best of the filmmakers by keeping them so trapped inside the Vogue universe that we never hear any outside voices"  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

4/5
"Even if the subject of the magazine doesn't interest you, the mechanics of making it happen will add much to the story of these two women for whom fashion is the world, not just a job."  Cinerina  Karina Montgomery

3/5
"Vogue VIP Anna Wintour slinks through this highly entertaining vérité documentary like a stoic, sunglasses-bedecked fetish doll."  Time Out New York  Keith Uhlich

C
"...mostly a big bore that delivers on few of its promises...Cutler's inadvertent focus on Coddington suggests a conceptual change during filming stuffed into a pre-conceived marketing campaign."  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

2/4
"For the past year or so, Wintour's been on the media warpath to win back her image, and Cutler seems happy to oblige."  Slant Magazine  Paul Schrodt

4/5
"The people around Wintour are so colourful that we never want it to end."  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

3/4
"Even a haute couture heathen such as I recognizes that to full-blown fashionistas, "September Issue" is nothing short of a religious experience."  Charlotte Weekly  Sean O'Connell

7/10
"Because this is an "authorized" (a.k.a. flattering) behind-the-scenes glimpse of "Vogue," it's glossy eye-candy but we never truly know what makes Anna Wintour tick."  SSG Syndicate  Susan Granger
OFCS Rating: 62% Fresh
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