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100Lusciously revealing fly-on-the-wall portrait of Anna Wintour.
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90A wonderful film, and one with vast appeal. Giving us everything we have come to expect from our fashion-centered programming and more, we are left with the sense that we have uncovered a mystery.
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83Filled with vivacity, charm and, yes, beauty.
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80A splendid study of the forces and passions behind the world's biggest fashion magazine.
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75Though most will visit R.J. Cutler's subtle, supple documentary hoping to peek beneath the formidable bangs of Vogue editor Anna Wintour, they will be disappointed: This is a movie whose ambitions range wider than the contents of her guarded psyche.
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75A subversively entertaining documentary.
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75What comes across is that she is, after all, a very good editor.
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75As for getting close to Wintour -- or even explaining the unfathomable mystery that can be haute couture -- the film comes up empty.
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75Beaded with amusing moments.
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75Compulsively entertaining documentary.
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A crisp and entertaining documentary.
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75While it doesn't scratch much below the surface, The September Issue is an entertainingly voyeuristic glimpse into the fashion world.
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75What the movie unfolds is how the magazine is inextricable from Wintour's vision of it.
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75For all its ballyhoo'd full access to Vogue's inner workings, the movie's cinéma-vérité approach feels perilously close to advertorial.
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Consistent with her ice queen reputation, Wintour is often disconcertingly direct and frequently unfeeling, though not without a dry sense of humor.
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70When it's all over, we still don't know who Wintour really is.
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70Behind the gloss of Vogue, a revealing look at work, creativity and two strong women
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70Wintour's arctic imperiousness has a way of creating the most masochistic deference, a dynamic that R.J Cutler superficially explores--and becomes prone to--in his documentary The September Issue.
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A slight, if often riveting, behind-the-scenes documentary.
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70This entertaining, glib movie is about the maintenance of a brand that Ms. Wintour has brilliantly cultivated since she assumed her place at the top of the editorial masthead in 1988 and which the documentary's director, R. J. Cutler, has helped polish with a take so flattering he might as well work there.
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70A dishy and engrossing peek inside the fashion world's corridors of power -- every bit as slickly packaged as the publication it seeks to uncover.
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67Like a time capsule from another era of journalism, The September Issue chronicles a distant past that flourished not but two years ago.
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67A fascinating, frustrating documentary.
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63What's most conspicuously missing from this ensemble is some input from the advertisers who subsidize Wintour's tyranny, and the readers who are seduced into buying her beautiful four-pound paperweights.
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60The doc's breakout star is Vogue creative director Grace Coddington, a former model whose plain appearance (the end result of a horrible car accident) and frumpy clothing belie her genius for fashion. She counters her boss every chance she can get and provides the film with a much-needed emotional center.
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It's delicious and ensnaring and easy on the eyes, but it can't give you the definitive truth about notoriously frosty Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
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The press notes boast that Mr. Cutler was given "unprecedented access" and the right of final cut; these advantages don't seem to have done much for this listless film.
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40The September Issue fixates on status and professional one-upmanship; if you want to see a movie that actually treats fashion as personal expression--in other words, art--keep a lookout for Anne Fontaine's forthcoming biopic "Coco Before Chanel."
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