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  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary The September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine weighed nearly five pounds, and was the single largest issue of a magazine ever published. With unprecedented access, 'The September Issue,' directed and produced by R.J. Cutler, tells the story of legendary Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour and her larger-than-life team of editors creating the...

Directed By: R.J. Cutler

  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 30 m

The September Issue

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 28 Critic Reviews
69
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
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Summary The September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine weighed nearly five pounds, and was the single largest issue of a magazine ever published. With unprecedented access, 'The September Issue,' directed and produced by R.J. Cutler, tells the story of legendary Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour and her larger-than-life team of editors creating the...

Directed By: R.J. Cutler

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 28 Critic Reviews
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100
Lusciously revealing fly-on-the-wall portrait of Anna Wintour.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
75
A crisp and entertaining documentary.
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75
Compulsively entertaining documentary.
By Carrie Rickey FULL REVIEW
70
A slight, if often riveting, behind-the-scenes documentary.
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70
Wintour'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.
By Melissa Anderson FULL REVIEW
63
What'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.
By Joe Williams FULL REVIEW
40
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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67% Positive
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25% Mixed
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8% Negative
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8% Negative
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Production Company A&E IndieFilms, Actual Reality Pictures
Release Date Aug 28, 2009
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline Fashion is a religion. This is the bible.
Website http://www.theseptemberissue.com/
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Awards

Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Satellite Awards
• 1 Nomination

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