Velvet Goldmine Critic Reviews

It wants to be a movie in search of a truth, but it's more like a movie in search of itself.Read the full review

Velvet Goldmine is no masterpiece, but, at its best, it's a ravishing rock dream.Read the full review

Dazzling and dizzying, confusing and even annoying, Velvet Goldmine is a feverish dream of a film, a riot of color and attitude that is all pop decadence, all night long.Read the full review

Director Todd Haynes' (Safe) much-anticipated look at the "glam rock" scene of two decades ago, is like a jigsaw puzzle with half of the pieces missing.Read the full review

The plot only slows a film that works best as a feast of sight and sound.Read the full review

One can admire it, but it's hard to get caught up in it.Read the full review

Haynes sets out to demonstrate the power of popular music to change people's lives--to tell them it's OK to fashion themselves into anything they please.Read the full review

Brilliantly reimagines the glam-rock 70's as a brave new world of electrifying theatricality and sexual possibility, to the point where identifying precise figures in this neo-psychedelic landscape is almost beside the point.Read the full review

There are moments when Velvet Goldmine threatens to collapse under the weight of writer/director Todd Haynes' (Poison, Safe) ambition. But, sometimes amazingly, it doesn't, becoming in the process one of the year's freshest, most exciting films.Read the full review