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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...beautiful, spry, nearly bare-naked ladies perform erotic dances of preposterously Gallic ooh-là-là proportions for the pleasure of Champagne-sipping tourists.... a movie that respects the serious work involved in simulating the sensations of pleasure." (Read the full review...) 70 words, 01/27/12 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "Meticulously spotlighted, the buttocks rotate like mechanical flesh, and I was thinking not of flesh but of technique: How many hours of rehearsal did it take to get the buns perfectly lined up with spotlighted polka dots?" (Read the full review...) 732 words, 02/24/12
A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...invites the viewer to contemplate the intricacies of the creative process, the daily rhythms of a complex organization and the tensions between artistic ambition and practicality -- and also to look at very beautiful women wearing very little." (Read the full review...) 718 words, 01/17/12 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "It's undeniably interesting to watch each element come into place, from choreography to costumes. But the truth is, most viewers will best appreciate the retro-sexy dance numbers themselves." (Read the full review...) 122 words, 01/20/12 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "It's not only the dancers that work hard at le Crazy, it is everyone, and the film supplies glimpses of the show behind the show... captures wonderful moments... It is a deft revelation of shared humanity..." (Read the full review...) 648 words, 02/03/12 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: MODERATE (cg) "John Davey's beautifully photographed erotic dancers owe a debt to Busby Berkeley's 1930s musicals. But you can't help but feel the women are being exploited, albeit willingly. It's a shame [Frederick] Wiseman doesn't explore the issue of exploiting women to make money." (Read the full review...) 165 words, 01/18/12 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a minor but absorbing chapter in a crucial filmmaker's book of images and subjects..." (Read the full review...) 480 words, 02/24/12 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "Meticulously spotlighted, the buttocks rotate like mechanical flesh, and I was thinking not of flesh but of technique: How many hours of rehearsal did it take to get the buns perfectly lined up with spotlighted polka dots?" (Read the full review...) 732 words, 02/24/12 Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: OUTSTANDING "...spellbinding.... Every shot and edit in [Frederick] Wiseman's film suggests without over-explaining, allowing a viewer to lose herself in pleasure..." (Read the full review...) 665 words, 01/18/12
Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Wiseman takes a lovingly unwavering gaze on the well-rounded assets of his subjects." (Read the full review...) 559 words, 02/24/12 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "The idea is to be erotic, seductive, but often, through Wiseman's unforgiving lens, the effect is more anatomical, aloof, amusing." (Read the full review...) 373 words, 03/30/12 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The revue and the film are chic, antiseptic and curiously asexual." (Read the full review...) 120 words, 03/02/12 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: VERY GOOD (cg) "They look great, they're naked, they're dancing... Now, can't we get back to club directors Decoufle and Mahdavi? They have their clothes on, but what they're doing is more real, and more relatable." (Read the full review...) 399 words, 03/09/12 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "...the 39th film from the legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman... a film about the mechanics of titillation rather than titillation itself.... Wiseman is fascinated by process, in this case the process of manufacturing desire." (Read the full review...) 607 words, 01/27/12 Walter Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "One thing is beyond question: Someone at the Crazy Horse has a fixation on the female derriere - there's even a number called 'Baby Buns.' " (Read the full review...) 334 words, 03/02/12 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a fascinating behind-the-scenes view, right down to the delivery man who blandly deposits a bag of takeout backstage. But disappointingly, one crucial group remains anonymous. We don't hear much from the actual women performing at 'the Crazy'..." (Read the full review...) 324 words, 02/10/12 Stan Hall, Portland Oregonian: VERY GOOD (cg) "Veteran filmmaker Frederick Wiseman is a master of the observational documentary... his impeccable technique and process-heavy focus come as a refreshing change of pace." (Read the full review...) 149 words, 03/02/12 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "At 81, Wiseman is a still-prolific luminary of what has been dubbed 'direct cinema,' a documentary style in which the director intrudes as little as possible and conducts no on-camera interviews." (Read the full review...) 314 words, 03/16/12 Tom Long, Detroit News: GOOD (cg) "Beautiful and cold, mundane and spectacular... a study in the ordinariness of the supposed extraordinary." (Read the full review...) 416 words, 03/23/12
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: OUTSTANDING "...spellbinding.... Every shot and edit in [Frederick] Wiseman's film suggests without over-explaining, allowing a viewer to lose herself in pleasure..." (Read the full review...) 665 words, 01/18/12 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "...lots of tasteful T&A." (Read the full review...) 149 words, 01/26/12 Noel Murray, AV Club: EXCELLENT (cg) "Anyone could make a film about a theater full of naked women; only Wiseman would take equal interest in the person who handles the ticket-ordering, and the one who makes sure there's a bottle of champagne on every table." (Read the full review...) 437 words, 01/19/12 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...it's not out to make a bold statement.... the picture is celebratory, in its own quiet way, as well as clear-eyed.... 'Crazy Horse' is a movie about process, about performance, about the exacting nature of producing an exquisite, entertaining sexual illusion." (Read the full review...) 1,255 words, 01/18/12 Andrew Schenker, Slant: VERY GOOD (cg) "Frederick Wiseman's stance of objectivity -- or at least his refusal to offer an explicit authorial commentary -- makes the documentarian's films both richly engaging and perpetually problematic." (Read the full review...) 982 words, 01/15/12
A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...invites the viewer to contemplate the intricacies of the creative process, the daily rhythms of a complex organization and the tensions between artistic ambition and practicality -- and also to look at very beautiful women wearing very little." (Read the full review...) 718 words, 01/17/12 David Denby, New Yorker: MODERATE "Normally, Wiseman finds humanity in people we're reluctant to look at. This time, he shows us gorgeous people, but never gets beneath the surface. [He] seems to have found a paragon but lost his sense of humor and proportion." (Read the full review...) 1,021 words, 01/23/12 Scott Tobias, NPR: EXCELLENT "...mesmerizing.... ponders the mystery of eroticism itself, how an arrangement of bodies on stage can summon such an ineffable response from an audience." (Read the full review...) 613 words, 01/19/12 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "It's not only the dancers that work hard at le Crazy, it is everyone, and the film supplies glimpses of the show behind the show... captures wonderful moments... It is a deft revelation of shared humanity..." (Read the full review...) 648 words, 02/03/12
Jay Weissberg, Daily Variety: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Paris' famed upscale nudie revue joins the Comedie Francaise and the Paris Opera Ballet to complete Frederick Wiseman's triumvirate of Parisian entertainment institutions.... the creative act takes a backseat to the performance, and the pileup of numbers feels repetitive." (Read the full review...) 611 words, 08/31/11 Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD "Revealing, impressionistic peek at the creation of a new show at Paris's famed erotic dancing club the Crazy Horse.... Both the film and what it captures are striking and true..." (Read the full review...) 997 words, 09/15/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "It's not only the dancers that work hard at le Crazy, it is everyone, and the film supplies glimpses of the show behind the show... captures wonderful moments... It is a deft revelation of shared humanity..." (Read the full review...) 648 words, 02/03/12 A.O. Scott, New York Times: EXCELLENT "...invites the viewer to contemplate the intricacies of the creative process, the daily rhythms of a complex organization and the tensions between artistic ambition and practicality -- and also to look at very beautiful women wearing very little." (Read the full review...) 718 words, 01/17/12
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