Moulin Rouge (2001) Critic Reviews
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Based upon 13 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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The film musical is at the moment an even more devitalized art form than the Broadway musical. But Moulin Rouge doesn't revive it. It only rearranges the bones.Read the full review
The movie is all color and music, sound and motion, kinetic energy, broad strokes, operatic excess.Read the full review
The result is a musical that substitutes irony for pop passion, misanthropic disjointedness for lyrical flow.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 so cheeky, aggressive and bursting with vitality that it can't help being annoying and exhilarating at the same time.Read the full review
Ends up leaving you starved for a single moment of unhyped emotion. You can barely see the characters for Luhrmann screaming.Read the full review
Simultaneously stirring and dispiriting.Read the full review
May be a spectacularly awful movie, but it's also spectacularly drenched in color, décor and other visual oh-la-la.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
