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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasMatthew 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.
- 80The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenIf 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.
- 80TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxBarney 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.
- 75New York PostMegan LehmannNew York PostMegan LehmannA tour de force that is weird, wacky and wonderful.
- 63New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanBarney's cinematic art inspires both awe and revulsion, often simultaneously.
- 50Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittFew of its loosely linked vignettes have enough visual or emotional power to be very memorable.
- 40Village VoiceVillage VoiceOffers little beyond the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment.