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61
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Moulin Rouge
20th Century Fox Film Corporation
FILM:
MUSIC:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sexual content
Starring
Nicole Kidman,
Ewan McGregor,
John Leguizamo,
Jim Broadbent,
Richard Roxburgh,
and
Kylie Minogue
Against the backdrop of 19th Century Paris and the famed Montmartre cabaret, this is the story of the doomed love affair between Christian (McGregor), a young poet, and Satine (Kidman), a courtesan and performer at the Moulin Rouge.
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Baz Luhrmann
Craig Pearce
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Baz Luhrmann
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 18, 2001
Video: December 18, 2001
Theatrical: May 18, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
126 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
Received eight Oscar nominations in 2002, including Best Picture and Best Actress (for Nicole Kidman). Won Best Picture-Musical or Comedy, Best Actress (Kidman), and Best Original Score at the 59th Golden Globe Awards, out of a total of six nominations.

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A landmark musical movie -- controversial, mercurial, even cheeky. It's the kind of film that wildly divides audiences and critics -- people tend to either love or hate it. I loved it.

90
Newsweek
David Ansen
Luhrmann has raised the level of his game, deconstructing the Hollywood musical -- a genre all but left for dead -- and reassembling it with a potency that hasn’t been seen since “Cabaret.”
90
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's a wonderful postmodern hug of a movie, and never once do you not know you're watching a movie.

90
New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
This thing moves brilliantly, sparkling like nothing we've seen domestically since "The Wiz" or "Xanadu."

89
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
A crazed, lovestruck, wholly original (and yet amazingly referential) beast, part pop-culture wasteland, part glowing tribute, and part wild-eyed roller coaster (of love).

88
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
An audacious, snappy visual and emotional feast of dishes both familiar and fresh. It's the first really good movie of 2001.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie is all color and music, sound and motion, kinetic energy, broad strokes, operatic excess.

80
Variety
Todd McCarthy
A tour de force of artifice, a dazzling pastiche of musical and visual elements at the service of a blatantly artificial story.

80
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
It's a mishmash of decoration, drapery and debauchery that's both deeply pleasurable and kitschy.

80
Time
Richard Corliss
The film dances; the heart sings.
80
Film Threat
Michael Dequina
What ultimately comes through is an undeniably imaginative work that is a glorious testament to the limitless and largely untapped possibilities of cinema.

75
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
A sometimes glorious, sometimes disastrous folly.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Some will find it exhilarating fun.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
A movie so cheeky, aggressive and bursting with vitality that it can't help being annoying and exhilarating at the same time.

75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
It's impossible to watch this beautifully chaotic, excessive movie impassively. You'll either embrace what Luhrmann has done here or run out of the theater, holding your head.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
You get faux feelings -- but faux of the highest, giddiest order.
70
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
You can go with it or resist it, be exhilarated or worn out. But forgetting the experience is not one of your options.

70
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The grand becomes grandiose and the lyrical turns bombastic.

70
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
A movie you can't readily get out of your head.
70
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
McGregor, the movie's most engaging performer, is convincing enough to sell the mutual attraction. The "Trainspotting" star is usually playing some kind of freak, and this is a nice stretch for him.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
It doesn't, as they say, really work -- but it's enjoyable enough in spots to leave one feeling passably entertained.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The result is a musical that substitutes irony for pop passion, misanthropic disjointedness for lyrical flow.

60
Film.com
Peter Brunette
Consistently runs the danger of substituting cool but ultra-hyper, modern special effects for boring old human sentiment.

60
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
It's the kind of flourish that makes you smile -- that makes you believe in the power of movies.
60
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Simultaneously stirring and dispiriting.

60
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Diverting, energetic, and even reasonably satisfying, so long as you aren't looking for a real musical to take its place.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Never boring, often excruciating and occasionally transcendent.

50
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
It wants to be like no other movie you've ever seen. It's more like every movie you've ever seen.
50
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Drowns in baroque mise en scène camp, frenetic musical numbers and a precious dialogue conceit that wears out its welcome very fast.

50
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
The film musical is at the moment an even more devitalized art form than the Broadway musical. But Moulin Rouge doesn't revive it. It only rearranges the bones.
40
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
It's like being trapped inside a fever dream of Oscar-night production numbers.

40
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
A voracious vacuum cleaner of a movie --hoovering up a hundred years' worth of junk with the same monotonously unmodulated hum.

38
USA Today
Mike Clark
May be a spectacularly awful movie, but it's also spectacularly drenched in color, décor and other visual oh-la-la.

38
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The picture brims over with ideas - good ones, silly ones, maudlin ones, witty ones, absurd ones - and they bump up against each other like ingredients in a vast stewpot that never comes to a continuous boil.
30
Slate
David Edelstein
Ends up leaving you starved for a single moment of unhyped emotion. You can barely see the characters for Luhrmann screaming.


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