Cremaster 3
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 21 Ratings
- Summary: Matthew Barney's Cremaster series has taken on a legendary stature. This final piece in the 5-part cycle is the longest, densest and most complex -- filled with beautiful, mystifying images, many of them harkening back to themes the artist has already established. (Film Forum)
- Director: Matthew Barney
- Genre(s): Drama
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Positive: 5 out of 7
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Mixed: 2 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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90Matthew Barney delivers his masterpiece in Cremaster 3, unquestionably the 35-year-old sculptor-performance artist-filmmaker's most linear, most narratively inclined work to date.
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80If Cremaster 3 is an innovative artwork that has been credited with breaking down the distance between sculpture and film, is it also a great movie? Probably yes.
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80Barney has been criticized as willfully esoteric, but if traditional meaning is once again elusive in this film, it remains an enthralling aesthetic experience, one that's steeped in mystery and a ravishing, baroque beauty.
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50Few of its loosely linked vignettes have enough visual or emotional power to be very memorable.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 17
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Mixed: 1 out of 17
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Negative: 5 out of 17