Moulin Rouge (2001) Critic Reviews

Simultaneously stirring and dispiriting.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

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

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

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

A movie you can't readily get out of your head.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

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

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