Cremaster 3
Glacier Field LLC | Release Date: May 15, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
VarietyScott Foundas
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. Read full review
80
The New York TimesStephen Holden
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. Read full review
80
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. Read full review
75
New York PostMegan Lehmann
A tour de force that is weird, wacky and wonderful. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Barney's cinematic art inspires both awe and revulsion, often simultaneously. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Few of its loosely linked vignettes have enough visual or emotional power to be very memorable. Read full review
40
Village VoiceEd Halter
Offers little beyond the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment. Read full review
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