Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 28
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 11
Eleven Minutes makes for a decent fashion world primer, but is likely to appeal mostly to Project Runway diehards.
Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 6
Eleven Minutes makes for a decent fashion world primer, but is likely to appeal mostly to Project Runway diehards.
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Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 24,843
The documentary Eleven Minutes catches up with Jay McCarroll, winner of the first season of the Bravo reality series Project Runway, to see how his career in fashion design has been impacted by the show. ~ Cammila Albertson, Rovi
Apr 5, 2008 Wide
Feb 23, 2010
Regent Releasing
All Critics (28) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (11)
McCarroll is as cocky and cantankerous as he is compelling, which leads to a glut of histrionic moments, including spectacular scuffles with his publicists and his staff.
McCarroll comes off as a likable and talented guy, amazingly calm as the Big Moment arrives and the guy making his models' shoes is nowhere to be found.
Even if you've never heard of Project Runway, the battle between art and wicked compromise never goes out of style.
The dynamics of fashioning low-end fashion are amusing but a little of McCarroll goes a long way.
For general audiences, it could use a bit of, ahem, tailoring - taking in here and there.
Though this is the rare documentary that admirably admits recording "reality" on film actually shapes how people behave under the camera's gaze, I think Eleven Minutes is going to appeal mostly to hard-core fashionistas.
Jay McCarroll is surprisingly endearing in a familiar fashion doc.
...a more real piece of work than one would expect.
A well-edited and moderately fascinating documentary lacking in truly illuminating and profound insights.
A decent behind-the-scenes look at the fashion world, a serviceable primer on what it takes to conceive, execute and present a collection and a diverting introduction to an entertaining personality.
A superbly crafted, bargain-budget documentary that profiles a fascinating underdog and skillfully explores the troubled territory between reality TV and reality.
Eleven Minutes is better when the cameras stay on McCarroll and allow him to voice his extreme ambivalence about being a reality-TV creation, and about the industry and his place within it. As ever, he plays the consummate outsider to perfection.
The process for putting on a high-profile fashion show seems endlessly fascinating even if it's hard to find reason to care about Jay McCarroll as the film's central subject.
This delirious, delicious, deconstructing look at the recent real-world entry into fashion of reality-TV's first "Project Runway" winner Jay McCarroll should round up the usual suspects of gay, style-conscious viewers and many others eager for a good time
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