Cremaster 3
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67 out of 100

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6.3 out of 10

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  • 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)

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Scott Foundas
    90
    Matthew 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.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    80
    If 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.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    80
    Barney 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.
  4. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    50
    Few of its loosely linked vignettes have enough visual or emotional power to be very memorable.

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