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Moulin Rouge! (2001) Rank 3 Reviews
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Days of Thunder (Travis Hoover)
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Baltimore City Paper (Ian Grey)
San Francisco Chronicle (Edward Guthmann)
San Francisco Chronicle (Edward Guthmann)
Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
To hell with the plot. It is a clothesline on which to string some of the most over-the-top musical monstrosities I have ever encountered. I was completely blown away by the sheer scale, spectacle, and gall involved with most of them. Imagine a ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
Thursday August 3rd, 2006 A DVD Review of... Images (C) FOX Genre : Musical/Drama Cast : Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, Richard Roxborough, Jim Broadbent, John Leguizamo Synopsis : The story follows a poet who defies his father by moving to Monmarte, ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Brian Oliver)
The King's Room (Paul Perkins)
This year we have seen many love movies like Pearl
Harbor, Angel Eyes and Someone Like You, Nothing this year has
there been one like this film called Moulin Rouge. The story is about
Love, Truth, Beauty, Freedom and music. Set in Paris nightclub the ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at The King's Room (Paul Perkins)
Plugged In
It’s 1900 and the world has been swept up in the New Bohemian Revolution. In an equal and opposite reaction to the demure Victorian Era, up-and-comers are shelving convention and prudery and immersing themselves in a sensate culture where art is ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Plugged In
Cinema Laser (Derek M. Germano)
Sitting down to watch MOULIN ROUGE for the first time, I found the film to be mesmerizing and visually astounding. Sadly, the movie musical had been a dead art form for decades; however, thanks to MOULIN ROUGE, not only has the genre been resurrected, ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Cinema Laser (Derek M. Germano)
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Film Values/Family Values (H. Arthur Taussig)
As dramatically simplistic (essentially a remake of the opera “La Boheme”) as it is visually outrageous, this film may mark a rebirth of the musical in post-Modern form. ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Film Values/Family Values (H. Arthur Taussig)
TIME Magazine (Richard Corliss)
The film dances; the heart sings. ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at TIME Magazine (Richard Corliss)
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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. ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Variety (Todd McCarthy)
Salon.com (Stephanie Zacharek)
It's a mishmash of decoration, drapery and debauchery that's both deeply pleasurable and kitschy. ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Salon.com (Stephanie Zacharek)
Matt's Movie Reviews (Matt Easterbrook)
"The story's been done to death... but because of Baz Luhrmann's direction and vision, it's a funky-ass time at the theater." ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Matt's Movie Reviews (Matt Easterbrook)
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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. ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Film Threat (Michael Dequina)
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dvdfuture.com (Ken Pierce)
A love story in the truest and most honest sense of the phrase, it tells the story of Christian (Ewan McGregor), a hopelessly romantic writer who has just moved to France to experience the Bohemian revolution firsthand, and Satine (Nicole Kidman) a ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at dvdfuture.com (Ken Pierce)
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Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
In Moulin Rouge, director Baz Luhrmann has finally found a form that is fitting to his uncompromisingly bombastic style. His previous two films, the independent Australian hit Strictly Ballroom (1992) and the hyperkinetic adaptation of William ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
If that is the major flaw of "Moulin Rouge", its aesthetic energy makes up for a lot. The director, Baz Luhrmann, is the same guy who made "Strictly Ballroom" more dynamic than we had any reason to expect, and turned "William Shakespeare's Romeo and ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
New York Post (Jonathan Foreman)
A sometimes glorious, sometimes disastrous folly. ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at New York Post (Jonathan Foreman)
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. ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Edward Guthmann)
ToxicUniverse.com (John Nesbit)
On the other hand, it could be a clever marketing plan to get in sync with the MTV generation (which has been weaned on fast-cutting images that substitute for substance), and requiring viewers who enjoy the show to come back for more viewings. ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at ToxicUniverse.com (John Nesbit)
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Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
The film's cinematography, production design, set design and costumes combine for a film dazzling in its fully saturated color images. I can't remember seeing a film more colorful than this one. The colors, along with the exuberant music, dancing, ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
A vivacious conductor directs the
familiar 20th Century Fox theme. A splendidly apropos
addition to their logo and a charming introduction to
a film that lavishly mixes the old with the new, ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
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"It's directed with an eye for color, especially the color of rouge, by the pop-musical enthusiast, the Australian, Baz Luhrmann." ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
DigitalVD.de (Eric Hoch)
efilmcritic.com (Collin Souter)
Director Baz Luhrman handles every scene in “Moulin Rouge” with the subtlety of a Hunter Thompson/Liberace acid trip. Wear edit-screen. ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at efilmcritic.com (Collin Souter)
eFilmCritic.com (Andrew Howe)
When it's over you'll be left with nothing but admiration for Luhrmann's seemingly-boundless creativity. ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Andrew Howe)
The Cincinnati Enquirer (Margaret A. McGurk)
Passion rules Moulin Rouge. That fact alone is enough to make amends for its considerable flaws.
Director and co-screenwriter Baz Luhrmann, who exposed his fearless love of romantic excess in Strictly Ballroom and Romeo + Juliet, here surrenders ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at The Cincinnati Enquirer (Margaret A. McGurk)
Premiere (France) (--)
Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
A film as unpredictable as the love it celebrates -- you keep falling in and out of this giddy affair. ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
Mr. Brown's Movies (Michael Dequina)
An undeniably imaginative work that is a glorious testament to the limitless and largely untapped possibilities of cinema. ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Mr. Brown's Movies (Michael Dequina)
Reel.com
Most of this summer's big-ticket movies will offer A-list stars, rockets' red glare, and ever-more impressive special effects, but they will be sadly lacking Moulin Rouge 's flare — sumptuous, shimmering, and scintillating. For all of its faults, ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Reel.com
Palo Alto Online (Jim Shelby)
Nicole Kidman as Satine and Ewan McGregor as Christian in Moulin Rouge.Baz Luhrmann, whose Strictly Ballroom made some jaded critics believe in movies again and whose frantic William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet raised eyebrows but won plenty of young ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Palo Alto Online (Jim Shelby)
Film Written Magazine (Jaime N. Christley)
I adored every minute of it, and I'm still not sure what I saw. ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Film Written Magazine (Jaime N. Christley)
Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Historical purists and those who enjoy only sedate films are likely to be infuriated by what Luhrmann has done here, but who cares? ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
The musical is dead. Correction, the musical of the past is dead. In order to reintroduce a film where actors suddenly break into song to a new audience of moviegoers, creators must add some new twist. The musical must be modernized. Recent attempts ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
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DVD Net (Anthony Horan)
If there’s anyone in this part of the world that hasn’t heard about Moulin Rouge sometime this year, we’d be very surprised. The movie’s theatrical release sparked a publicity frenzy that was almost unequalled for an Australian movie (well, an ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at DVD Net (Anthony Horan)
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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. ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
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Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
The grand becomes grandiose and the lyrical turns bombastic. ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
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. ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Washington Post (Rita Kempley)
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Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews (Harry Knowles)
Within this magical incantation that Baz Luhrmann has just cast upon me lies a love story that exhibits the truth about tragic love, the beauty of doomed love and the freedom of transitory love.
You see, LOVE, is the central and most powerful theme of ...read the complete Moulin Rouge! movie review at Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews (Harry Knowles)
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Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)
If nothing else, Moulin Rouge helps refine the notion of spectacle. Cinema's infinite visual capacity has long been used primarily for explosions and spaceships, and it's always refreshing to see something new. (Frankly, I'll take Nicole ...read the complete Mo