Drawing Restraint 9 Critic Reviews
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It's hard to shake the sense that there's less here than meets the eye, but what meets the eye burns with a rare intensity.Read the full review
Ultimately, the scale of the production and the expectation built into the release don't entirely justify the effort.Read the full review
The uninitiated viewer can admire it simply for the majesty of its visual poetry.Read the full review
A tapestry of sensuous, striking and sometimes disturbing imagery, Drawing Restraint 9 marks the latest cinematic visit to the wacky world of experimental artist Matthew Barney.Read the full review
Slow but rarely tedious.Read the full review
Visual artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney's follow-up to his acclaimed "Cremaster" film series continues this provocateur's penchant for outrageous imagery and numbing non-narratives.Read the full review
Sad to say, the new Matthew Barney opus, Drawing Restraint 9, made in collaboration with his main squeeze, Bjork, doesn't advance the Barney oeuvre an inch past where he left it with his massive, megalomaniacal opus known as the "Cremaster" series.Read the full review
Anyone who puts production gloss above performance, plot, dialogue and editing may thrill to Drawing Restraint 9.Read the full review
