Matthew Barney delivers his masterpiece in Cremaster 3, unquestionably the 35-year-old sculptor-performance artist-filmmaker's most linear, most narratively inclined work to date.
If Cremaster 3 is an innovative artwork that has been credited with breaking down the distance between sculpture and film, is it also a great movie? Probably yes.
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TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Barney has been criticized as willfully esoteric, but if traditional meaning is once again elusive in this film, it remains an enthralling aesthetic experience, one that's steeped in mystery and a ravishing, baroque beauty.
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New York PostMegan Lehmann
New York PostMegan Lehmann
A tour de force that is weird, wacky and wonderful.
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New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Barney's cinematic art inspires both awe and revulsion, often simultaneously.