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The Cremaster Cycle

Play trailer Poster for The Cremaster Cycle 2003 6h 38m Drama Fantasy Horror Play Trailer Watchlist
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63% Tomatometer 8 Reviews 85% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings

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Keith Uhlich Time Out 11/05/2021
2/5
It's safe to say that [Barney's] schweddy balls have no conceptual limits. Go to Full Review Nathan Lee Village Voice 05/19/2010
Matthew Barney's humongous riff on struggle, reproduction, conceptual drag, and several dozen strands of narrative gobbledygook is undeniably something to be reckoned with--if only as a relic of the boom years in contemporary art. Go to Full Review Kaleem Aftab The List 04/17/2019
Fear not, you really don't have to watch all five of these crazy films, or to even see them in order, to appreciate the brilliance and madness of Barney's creation. Go to Full Review David N. Butterworth rec.arts.movies.reviews 09/16/2015
3.5/4
Matthew Barney makes Peter Greenaway look like Joel Schumacher. Go to Full Review Richard Knight Knight at the Movies 11/03/2010
Undeniably the work of a unique artistic vision. Go to Full Review Ian Buckwalter DCist 10/11/2010
7.5/10
It's too easy (and inaccurate) to write these films off as willfully opaque art world pretension. This is challenging, formally audacious, uneven, and sometimes confounding work - as ambitious an undertaking for the viewer as it was for its creator. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Private U 02/02/2015 Horribly pretentious and does not deserve the attention of a single view. Matthew Barney is the biggest troll when it comes to filmmaking. Calling this man a "filmmaker" is an insult to every other filmmaker by association. Watch his interviews and read up on his introduction to movie making - he's such a phony and he's playing every one who watches films claiming themselves to be connoisseurs and lovers of avant-garde cinema. It's obscure and provocative for the sake of seeing how much garbage the upper echelon of film-watchers can ingest while still giving their approval. The price tag associated with owning this collection of motion-pictured-crap is even more offensive. Matthew Barney deserves a swift quick to the cremaster for this. I give this film a rating of 0. See more Read all reviews
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Matthew Barney

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Movie Info

Director
Matthew Barney
Genre
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Original Language
English
Runtime
6h 38m