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Darkly powerful. Jun 4, 2003 | Rating: A-
Darkly powerful.
Owen Gleiberman
It is Gilmore's story and his family history, evoked symbolically, that give Cremaster 2 a solidity and emotional depth that are missing in the earlier, more playful installments. Apr 12, 2003 | Rating: 4/5
It is Gilmore's story and his family history, evoked symbolically, that give Cremaster 2 a solidity and emotional depth that are missing in the earlier, more playful installments.
Stephen Holden
A tantalizing melange of dreamlike riffs on the desolation of the American west, the empty poses of male ritual, and the blood lust of macho fetishism. Apr 12, 2003 | Full Review…
A tantalizing melange of dreamlike riffs on the desolation of the American west, the empty poses of male ritual, and the blood lust of macho fetishism.
Ted Shen
Barney defiantly makes expensive avant-garde movies that proudly flaunt both their extravagance and their obscurity, and while they're salient forays into notions of history and narrative to be sure, they're also sallies of the genius Artist writ large. Apr 12, 2003 | Full Review…
Barney defiantly makes expensive avant-garde movies that proudly flaunt both their extravagance and their obscurity, and while they're salient forays into notions of history and narrative to be sure, they're also sallies of the genius Artist writ large.
Holly Willis
The narcotized self-satisfaction of [Cremaster 1] is, however, preferable to the narrative Cremaster 2 (1999), which, twice as long. Apr 12, 2003
The narcotized self-satisfaction of [Cremaster 1] is, however, preferable to the narrative Cremaster 2 (1999), which, twice as long.
J. Hoberman
The most cohesive narrative in any of these films, following murderer Gary Gilmore (played by Barney) on his crime spree, conviction, & striking execution, juxtaposed with a Harry Houdini (played by Norman Mailer) subplot. Oct 11, 2010 | Rating: 8.1/10 | Full Review…
The most cohesive narrative in any of these films, following murderer Gary Gilmore (played by Barney) on his crime spree, conviction, & striking execution, juxtaposed with a Harry Houdini (played by Norman Mailer) subplot.
Ian Buckwalter
Barney's outlandish mise-en-scène, forever emphasizing the organic, the amorphous, the massive, the adhesive, and the fluorescent in quite literal ways, also retains those very qualities in my memory. May 19, 2010 | Rating: A | Full Review…
Barney's outlandish mise-en-scène, forever emphasizing the organic, the amorphous, the massive, the adhesive, and the fluorescent in quite literal ways, also retains those very qualities in my memory.
Nick Davis
Bizarre and incomprehensible, full of imagery that's intriguing and creepy ... and this time quite sexy as well. Feb 2, 2004 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Bizarre and incomprehensible, full of imagery that's intriguing and creepy ... and this time quite sexy as well.
Rich Cline
the 1977 execution of Gary Gilmore (played by Barney, with prosthetically reduced penis) is figured as a rodeo ride to the death Feb 2, 2004 | Full Review…
the 1977 execution of Gary Gilmore (played by Barney, with prosthetically reduced penis) is figured as a rodeo ride to the death
Anton Bitel
It's a little longer than Cremaster 1, and it has extra room for more confusing craziness. Dec 22, 2003 | Rating: 2/4
It's a little longer than Cremaster 1, and it has extra room for more confusing craziness.
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
Easily the most plot-driven in all of Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle, Cremaster 2 still conveys the thematic obsessions that drive the series, and stands as one of its most accessible entries. Apr 11, 2003 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Easily the most plot-driven in all of Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle, Cremaster 2 still conveys the thematic obsessions that drive the series, and stands as one of its most accessible entries.
Jeremy Heilman
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