Moulin Rouge (2001) Critic Reviews

It's a wonderful postmodern hug of a movie, and never once do you not know you're watching a movie.Read the full review

The movie is all color and music, sound and motion, kinetic energy, broad strokes, operatic excess.Read the full review

A tour de force of artifice, a dazzling pastiche of musical and visual elements at the service of a blatantly artificial story.Read the full review

A movie so cheeky, aggressive and bursting with vitality that it can't help being annoying and exhilarating at the same time.Read the full review

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 full review

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 full review

The grand becomes grandiose and the lyrical turns bombastic.Read the full review

A movie you can't readily get out of your head.Read the full review

The result is a musical that substitutes irony for pop passion, misanthropic disjointedness for lyrical flow.Read the full review