Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

In the end, Marconi's point of view makes for an ultimately frustrating, if still fascinating, 87 minutes of cinema.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 14, 2008

A serviceable docu-tease.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 4, 2008

[An] elegant documentary.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 14, 2007

Unfortunately, those without extensive previous knowledge of Lagerfeld's legendary career will find little here to enlighten them, a sad waste considering the relative lack of serious cinematic explorations into the fashion world.

Full Review | Dec 3, 2007

Lagerfeld Confidential, while an undisciplined piece of filmmaking, offers a rare glimpse into the soul of the fashion world, with Lagerfeld, as he admits, surviving through his philosophical fixation on The New: life as the proverbial next season.

| Original Score: B | Nov 7, 2007

Fascinating portrait of a decadent aristocrat with a flair for the beautiful.

| Oct 27, 2007

Comes off as something that might have been made by Lagerfeld's own army of publicists in Paris.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 26, 2007

I learned a lot about Lagerfeld but nothing I felt an urgent need to know.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 26, 2007

Engaging, frequently amusing and occasionally moving documentary about one of fashion's most fascinating figures.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2007

You learn only as much as Lagerfeld wants you to, which isn't very much at all.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 26, 2007

Lagerfeld embodies the high fashion life - his every move would provide enough material to fill The Devil Wears Prada ten times over, but our view is dulled by Marconi's bland questioning.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 26, 2007

Even by the unexacting standards of fashionista portraiture, this is a feeble effort.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 26, 2007

Talkative and witty as he is, Chanel bigwig Karl Lagerfeld is a stubbornly private man.

| Oct 26, 2007

We don't learn a lot from Rodolphe Marconi's up-close but annoyingly impersonal documentary, which devotes pointless minutes to KL dozing on planes, and snootily considers his importance a given.

| Oct 26, 2007

Know not to take tips from a man who has a ponytail and wears fingerless black gloves.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 26, 2007

Lagerfeld's mannerisms and stage-props are a kind of armour which make intimacy impossible.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 26, 2007

If you're one of those devils who wears Prada, seek it out. If your jeans don't come with designer labels, you're advised to look elsewhere.

| Oct 26, 2007

Anyone hoping for a deeper insight into the fashion designer than his weakness for the construction industry should probably look somewhere other than the insubstantial documentary Lagerfeld Confidential.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 26, 2007

Will have fashion mavens squawking for weeks.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 26, 2007