Even decades since creation, Cunningham's choreography still stuns... Stripped away from convention and without explanation, it flies, but stuck inside tired modes of storytelling, it only stumbles.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 26, 2020

If Kovgan's sharp restagings in subway tunnels and spartan woods are inventive, so too is her handling of archive footage, her subject found in motion inset on screen alongside scribbled notes, as if alive inside a scrapbook.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 18, 2020

[A] delightful - if occasionally baffling - portrait of one of the most revolutionary creative artists of the 20th century.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2020

Worthwhile, even if the dance sequences are lost in the editing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2020

The film is, I think, just as Cunningham would have wanted it: cerebral, highbrow and mildly frustrating, with nothing so conventional as talking heads or context.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 11, 2020

The revolutionary visuals find endless ways to honour the mind of an innovator - but simultaneously risk an overwhelm of aesthetic information, rather than a lucid insight into the anatomy of contemporary dance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 9, 2020

I maintain as much of an appreciation for modern dance as I do for watching golf on 온라인카지노추천. But this is a movie, and as such, anything can be, and in this case is, rendered cinematic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 29, 2020

Though the film provides a clear chronology of these formative years, it does so in an inventive, unorthodox manner inspired by Cunningham's own untethered creativity.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 14, 2020

It's structurally daring, presented in 3D, and devoted to showing rather than explaining, via archival footage and colourful new interpretations of the artist's canon.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 9, 2020

Cunningham doesn't always work as a portrait of its enigmatic subject, who tended to downplay his success in favour of letting his work speak for itself, but when it does, your jaw drops.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 9, 2020

Kovgan's film succeeds in a way that most dance documentaries do not: as an art object in and of itself. It is well edited, well paced, and as I've said already, beautifully shot.

| Jan 6, 2020

Cunningham adheres to a distinctly romantic approach to the artist: irascible and railing against the hypocrisy of humanity through these wonderful and complicated movements that soar above and beyond.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 3, 2020

In all the intellectual reflection "Cunningham" provokes about the lasting fascination of Merce Cunningham's ideas, we shouldn't forget the factor of Cunningham's beauty. Every archival clip here attests to it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2020

What we get, however, isn't so much a cohesive narrative as it is set pieces, held together by a thin framing device. For a film of such visual audacity, the lack of storytelling depth is frustrating.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 30, 2019

It crystallizes what [Merce Cunningham] was doing.

| Dec 13, 2019

An exhilarating testament to documentaries as a boundless form of art.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 13, 2019

The movements of the dancers here are often startlingly expressive, with particular emphasis on sliding across the floor and sinuously unexpected torso gyrations, but there are times when shadows and camera movement obscure what we could be seeing.

| Dec 12, 2019

[A] visual wonder that involves from start to finish.

| Dec 11, 2019

An excellent introduction to a great body of work that can be hard to get a handle on.

| Dec 11, 2019

By amplifying Merce Cunningham's dances with sun-dappled backdrops and 3D gimmickry, the film deviates from their creator's principle in a way that almost seems to betray their original intent.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 6, 2019