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

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.

| Original Score: B- | May 25, 2013

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jan 14, 2010

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.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 11, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2009

The affection these people have for each other is what makes Beautiful Losers (the name is taken from one of their shows) so attractive.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2009

Prioritising the self over the job means Beautiful Losers is rarely more than a compendium of loveliness and apology.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2009

That said, all art deserves biography, and great art deserves recognition.

| Oct 18, 2008

On your deathbed you will want back the time it takes to see this one.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

One of the year's best documentaries.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 26, 2008

The film's score, by Money Mark, is an entertainment in itself.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 5, 2008

An absorbing look at how a circle of dispossessed young artists from the 1990s eventually found its way to mainstream success.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2008

This is a pleasant enough visual romp with surprisingly few down notes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 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.

| Aug 8, 2008

Some of the art is probably interesting, but Rose's own video-influenced filmmaking style leaves little time for inspection or reflection.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 8, 2008

[A] pleasant film, which sings the praises of nonconformity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 8, 2008

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 8, 2008