Moulin Rouge! (2001)

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100	Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington A landmark musical movie -- controversial, mercurial, even cheeky. It's the kind of film that wildly divides audiences and critics -- people tend to either love or hate it. I loved it.
88	Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert The movie is all color and music, sound and motion, kinetic energy, broad strokes, operatic excess.
88	New York Daily News Jack Mathews An audacious, snappy visual and emotional feast of dishes both familiar and fresh. It's the first really good movie of 2001.
75	San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann A movie so cheeky, aggressive and bursting with vitality that it can't help being annoying and exhilarating at the same time.
75	Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea You get faux feelings -- but faux of the highest, giddiest order.
75	Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt Some will find it exhilarating fun.
70	Rolling Stone Peter Travers The grand becomes grandiose and the lyrical turns bombastic.
70	Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern A movie you can't readily get out of your head.
67	Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman The result is a musical that substitutes irony for pop passion, misanthropic disjointedness for lyrical flow.
38	USA Today Mike Clark May be a spectacularly awful movie, but it's also spectacularly drenched in color, décor and other visual oh-la-la.

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