As a concept this may please some art students, but as entertainment it's a dud. Exactly why boredom sets in early has something to do with the difference between visual and dramatic art.

| Jun 8, 2020

If you want to watch 13 Cate Blanchetts coming at you at the same time, this is the movie for you.

| Original Score: B | May 12, 2020

As a traditional film, it may leave many frustrated and confused, but as an acting exercise and thesis on the past century or so of artistic discovery, it's captivating and, more often than you might think, quite amusing.

| May 11, 2020

Art for art's sake.

| Aug 4, 2019

It's two hours you will never get back no matter how "arty" the movie thinks it is.

| Original Score: 3.5/10 | May 24, 2019

Blanchett has never been better, inhabiting a smorgasbord of personas, but Rosefeldt's curatorial ambitions belong in a gallery, not in cinemas.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2019

This film is for the trendy freedom fighter who will rejoin his class once the fight for freedom is no longer in vogue. Some will love it, some will hate it, while others will just be baffled.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 31, 2019

Rosefeldt explores cerebral engagement by going for the gut.

| Jan 24, 2019

These text fragments become more like the cries of an adolescent visionary, perpetually misunderstood in a way that feels, while endearingly romantic, also presumptuous and privileged.

| Dec 4, 2018

It largely works ... on the basis of how playfully it captures the manifesto's desire to collapse art and form (and the formation of an artistic revolution) into its own singularity.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 5, 2018

It absolutely won me over. I liked it in seconds. Blanchett interprets a fetching cross-section of individuals.

| Sep 10, 2018

A movie that is entertaining in spite of its extreme eccentricity, and far more accessible than its unfamiliar format would normally allow.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2018

Overly long (two hours!), overwhelmingly dull, and honestly really hard to sit through.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 14, 2018

Blanchett brings the star power and talent, Rosefeldt brings the vision, and together, they create an experimental tour de force.

| Aug 6, 2018

For aficionados and students of art. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 18, 2018

Commenting on the role of artists in society today, the strident dissertations would be worthy of a graduate-level art theory class if they weren't so maddeningly pretentious.

| May 17, 2018

Beyond presenting a chameleon-like Cate Blanchett and playing timidly with the idea of ​​collage, [Manifesto] does not achieve anything. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 3, 2018

Cate Blanchett's formidable shape-shifting skills have found their ideal collaborator in German artist and filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 7, 2018

One for the fans. Fans of Blanchett and Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist Manifesto. Wherever they may be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 11, 2018

Manifesto creates a philosophical narrative about art and its role in society using dozens of manifestos written by thinkers, artists, philosophers, architects, dancers, and filmmakers.

| Dec 29, 2017