This is a visually powerful, emotionally draining documentary.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 14, 2018

McQueen's great legacy is the beauty and skill that lay beneath the compulsion to outrage.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2018

What keeps McQueen from being a brilliant doco is its willingness to skim over the darkest parts of the designer's life.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 8, 2018

McQueen is an honest study of a tragic genius.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 26, 2018

"McQueen" doesn't even have to try to make the case for McQueen's brilliance. It's all there, right on the screen; this dude was artistically bonkers in all the right ways.

| Original Score: B | Aug 17, 2018

It's as close as most of us will ever get to a McQueen original.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2018

[The directors] would have done well to shear away the obscuring frills of polite encomiums and pay more attention to the structural details of both the man and what he made.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 10, 2018

Utilizing Michael Nyman's... magnificent score with pinpoint precision, the filmmakers infuse their film with an urgent vibrancy that's positively transfixing.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 10, 2018

McQueen is a haunting biography that goes beyond even that live runway experience to conjure the visionary himself, in as much as he may ever be known - and in a way even his savagely beautiful clothes themselves cannot.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 3, 2018

If you have any intention of seeing "McQueen" make sure you see it in a theater for full effect.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 2, 2018

A savagely beautiful tribute that the late, irreverent fashion designer Alexander McQueen would surely have appreciated.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 31, 2018

"McQueen" makes the case that its subject was an artist whose clay was clothing. It also, despite giving short shrift to psychoanalysis, reminds us that everything you might want to know about the artist can be found in the art.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 31, 2018

"McQueen" is an intriguing look at genius, its inspiration and ultimately its cost.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2018

McQueen sates audiences' desires to hear about the man's origins, the mania that fueled his creations, and his ultimate downward spiral, but it only ever feels like a pattern waiting to be sewn together.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 23, 2018

Maybe now is the right moment-and McQueen, despite its shortcomings, the right film-to reheat [this] debate.

| Jul 20, 2018

Those closest to [McQueen] seem content to make peace with the dueling spirits inside him, even if he could not.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 20, 2018

The film's methods are familiar, but accordingly satisfying.

| Jul 20, 2018

Formally traditional, and guided by a respectful approach to a complicated man. It's lovingly told, even as it refuses to gloss over ugliness.

| Jul 20, 2018

This doc on the late designer Alexander McQueen is a ravishing, haunting portrait of a fashion-shock genius. , haunting and a must-see

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 20, 2018

If nothing else, "McQueen" is a staggeringly beautiful piece of filmmaking.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 20, 2018