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Beautiful Losers (2008)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:16
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: An insightful if fawning documentary that explores a group of 90s NYC artists.
Theatrical Release:Aug 8, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Beautiful Losers celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural moments of a generation In the early 1990's a loose-knit group of like minded outsiders found common ground at... [More]
Starring: Thomas Campbell, Jo Jackson, Cheryl Dunn, Shepard Fairey
Director: Aaron Rose, Joshua Leonard
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Reviews for Beautiful Losers
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 1/5 |
As you watch the movie wholeheartedly and uncritically celebrate the group’s “nonconformist” ethos (shouldn’t someone gently break it to them?), you can feel the energy being sucked out of you. Full Review |
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 3/5 |
An amiable portrait of the artist as a scruffy slacker, and a useful jumping off point for anyone interested in investigating some of the cultural issues that marked the 1990s and the start of the new millennium. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Like the art scene it documents, Beautiful Losers is chaotic, anarchic, rambling and populated by charismatic freaks with statement T-shirts, complicated haircuts and impossibly rare trainers. Full Review |
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2/5 |
You can't help but feel like a bit of an eye-rolling parent, wondering if a few of them might benefit from a proper job and a light slap. Full Review |
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3/5 |
The affection these people have for each other is what makes Beautiful Losers (the name is taken from one of their shows) so attractive. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Prioritising the self over the job means Beautiful Losers is rarely more than a compendium of loveliness and apology. Full Review |
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Click to read the article Full Review |
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That said, all art deserves biography, and great art deserves recognition. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
On your deathbed you will want back the time it takes to see this one. Full Review |
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4/4 |
One of the year's best documentaries. Full Review |
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3/4 |
The film's score, by Money Mark, is an entertainment in itself. Full Review |
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4/5 |
An absorbing look at how a circle of dispossessed young artists from the 1990s eventually found its way to mainstream success. Full Review |
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3/4 |
This is a pleasant enough visual romp with surprisingly few down notes. Full Review |
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[An] alternately winsome and irritating documentary about the art scene that grew out of the Alleged Gallery on Manhattan's Lower East Side in the 1990s. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Some of the art is probably interesting, but Rose's own video-influenced filmmaking style leaves little time for inspection or reflection. Full Review |
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3/4 |
[A] pleasant film, which sings the praises of nonconformity. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Though [Director] Mr. Rose can't be blamed for waxing nostalgic, he can't much expect us to care about so fawning and self-serving a document.
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2.5/5 |
It succeeds intermittently and is reasonably enlightening, but whether audiences are really going to warm up to the individuals presented here is questionable. Full Review |
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4/5 |
a celebration of rude and raw art and the kinetic charge of experiencing something fresh and undefiled Full Review |
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Pleasing though less-than-profound homage. Full Review |
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