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An insightful if fawning documentary that explores a group of 90s NYC artists.
All Critics (29) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (11)
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. Aug 7, 2009 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
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.
Catherine Shoard
On your deathbed you will want back the time it takes to see this one. Oct 18, 2008 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
On your deathbed you will want back the time it takes to see this one.
Alan G. Artner
One of the year's best documentaries. Sep 26, 2008 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
One of the year's best documentaries.
Michael Hardy
The film's score, by Money Mark, is an entertainment in itself. Sep 5, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The film's score, by Money Mark, is an entertainment in itself.
Kenneth Baker
An absorbing look at how a circle of dispossessed young artists from the 1990s eventually found its way to mainstream success. Aug 29, 2008 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
An absorbing look at how a circle of dispossessed young artists from the 1990s eventually found its way to mainstream success.
Gary Goldstein
[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. Aug 8, 2008
[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.
Andrew O'Hehir
The whole ethos portrayed in this film seems to be of a tightly knit group, referencing and re-referencing each other ad infinitum. Feb 10, 2019 | Full Review…
The whole ethos portrayed in this film seems to be of a tightly knit group, referencing and re-referencing each other ad infinitum.
Sarah Manvel
A shamelessly self-promoting homage documentary to a like-minded group of rebel pop culture artists, who work together in a NYC collective but do independent work. May 25, 2013 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
A shamelessly self-promoting homage documentary to a like-minded group of rebel pop culture artists, who work together in a NYC collective but do independent work.
Dennis Schwartz
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. Aug 11, 2009 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
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.
Peter Whittle
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. Aug 7, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
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.
Jon Fortgang
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. Aug 7, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
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.
The affection these people have for each other is what makes Beautiful Losers (the name is taken from one of their shows) so attractive. Aug 7, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The affection these people have for each other is what makes Beautiful Losers (the name is taken from one of their shows) so attractive.
Rob Daniel
Interesting, but underwhelming documentary about art. Had some good things in it, and the artist interviews were enjoyable, but felt a bit lacking somewhere.
Super Reviewer
Documentary on a group of self-made artists in 90's New York and how their DIY mentality influenced the mainstream world of art and advertisting. As a fan of artists whose primary focus isn't to be as cool as humanly possible (cf most surfer dude documentaries) it was nice to see artists enthusiastically dissing their early works and emphasizing how nerdy they were, but it was hard to tell how they got from there to fame or indeed how famous they got to be. But there's a definitely charm in a philosophy that embraces all of us who still secretly like to "make stuff" at home.
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