A film drama that, for the first time in my experience, shows ballet dancers not as wounded birds, but as normal, serious working people.

| Aug 15, 2018

This is Altman at his easiest, his most unruffled, and complete.

| Dec 15, 2017

A minor work in the oeuvre of Altman or producer Vachon, this behind the scenes dance film exhibits the director's stylisic devices but lacks fresh and poignant insights.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 23, 2013

Excellent look at what goes into creating ballet.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2010

Dance sequences, both in the studio and in performance, make up the symbolic and potent thrust of this enjoyable yet confined movie.

| Original Score: B | May 4, 2009

A film about the dance world that really reaches out to everyone.

| Apr 29, 2009

Eschews any concern with the cinematic foreground in favor of wide-angled pans across an expanded back cast encouraged to indulge in Altman's trademark overlapping dialogue.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 25, 2007

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 5, 2005

[Altman's] trademarks -- invisible editing, doped-up zooms, overlapping conversations -- are all on display, but those looking for any sense of momentum will be disappointed.

| Jan 21, 2005

...can be read as a movie about movie-making, about how casts are assembled and tricked...into yielding something more profound than they might have thought themselves capable

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jan 2, 2005

[Altman] fondly documents the ins and outs of this notoriously exotic gang of artists as if he were an amateur anthropologist smitten by an eccentric tribe.

| Sep 23, 2004

| Original Score: B- | Aug 7, 2004

My feeling is that The Company is meant to be enjoyed just as we would enjoy the dance it chronicles. It's a miscalculation, but not a grave offense.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 20, 2004

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 17, 2004

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 15, 2004

The venerable Altman's distinctive eye remains undimmed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 14, 2004

Meanders aimlessly until eventually falling flat on its face.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 11, 2004

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 5, 2004

By the time Campbell and her partner pair off for ... "My Funny Valentine," the film has become a love letter to the expanding the limits of artistic expression

| Apr 28, 2004

To call this movie dramatically inert is to oversell it. This is one of the few non-experimental films that is virtually without plot.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 23, 2004