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The Company (2003)
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Reviews Counted:121
Fresh:84
Rotten:37
Average Rating:6.5/10
Theatrical Release:Dec 25, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $2,164,659
Synopsis: Robert Altman follows up the stunning success of the Academy Award-winning GOSFORD PARK with THE COMPANY, a look at the world of ballet as only Altman could envision it. Throughout his... [More]
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Reviews for The Company
a celebration of. . . that alchemy that takes ego and commerce, passion and pain, and transmutes it into pure poetry
10/18/03
The venerable Altman's distinctive eye remains undimmed.
05/14/04
An indelible document of sublime beauty at its most human and its most divine.
12/30/03
Reveals what makes Altman's ouevre so indispensable — it's the clarity of vision, and the belief that stories can always be found if you watch people carefully enough.
12/08/03
Robert Altman's surpassingly beautiful ballet movie feels lighter than air -- but in fact it's the great director's most tender and memorable film in years.
12/27/03
A plotless, characterless but oddly involving film.
02/05/04
It gives you the opportunity to experience the daily lives of trained, very talented and temperamental performers. And it invites you to pull up a seat and watch them do what they do best.
01/15/04
Top CriticDance sequences, both in the studio and in performance, make up the symbolic and potent thrust of this enjoyable yet confined movie.
05/04/09
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11/23/03
This is an absolutely miraculous movie.
01/22/04
The movie shows Altman's embracing confidence with ensembles. His old eagle eye flies through the maze of supple, bounding bodies and burning egos.
01/23/04
In a phrase, “The Company” is like the ballet it celebrates: you’re going to have to invest patience and determination to appreciate it’s artistry.
01/18/04
The film likely marks Altman's most obtuse and plotless effort in ages, but the lifestyle and natural skill of these ballet dancers is fairly compelling in itself.
01/29/04
The film just flies through the air with the greatest of ease just as skillfully as any of these fantastic dancers.
02/25/04
It's a joy to watch these colorful characters, and their exacting, physically demanding dances, from a leisured distance.
01/23/04
Top CriticAltman manages to communicate an absorbing authenticity about the dancers' lives while layering the film with the richness of dance itself.
01/19/04
In Altman, The Company and the dancers of the Joffrey have luckily stumbled onto a kindred and no-less-nimble spirit, for whom dance is just another type of storytelling.
02/12/04
This elegant movement in still life unravels as a profound metaphor for both the filmmaking process and life itself.
10/17/03
Robert Altman's new film, which follows a Chicago-based dance troupe through a few months of its regular season, is enjoyably lithe and droll.
12/26/03
Top CriticLatest News for The Company
November 21, 2006:
Auteur Robert Altman Passes Away at 81
Robert Altman, the esteemed and venerable director of "M*A*S*H," "Nashville," and "The Player," died Monday from complications due to cancer. He... More...
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