The story is filled with heartache, romance, jealousy and life...while some of it gets a little dull in the middle, overall it’s Luhrmann at his best.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 20, 2024

The film is unassailable and impenetrable; it is triumphantly indignant and courageously simplistic.

| Jun 17, 2024

Baz Luhrmann makes sure that everything that comes before the tragic ending is gleaming with beauty and lavishness.

| Oct 23, 2023

This movie is super strange and the only explanation to its strangeness is that it works in seven or eight different ways, some of them good and some of them bad. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 7, 2023

Nothing short of a skillful display of tricks of the trade behind the feigned brilliance of this hoax of a film. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 7, 2023

It's a bauble, but an ingenious one, and it's also the work of a diehard romantic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 5, 2023

Moulin Rouge is an audacious, snappy visual and emotional feast of dishes both familiar and fresh.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 5, 2023

Where Luhrmann's film needs to seduce us, it can only get in our face and -- like a bad drunk -- bellow, "Love me, love me, love me!" In the end, there's not one honest, heartfelt moment in this entire tarty, phony valentine.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 5, 2023

Kidman and McGregor sparkle together; some songs enchant, a fine supporting cast give us some laughs, but it's not enough. There is nothing to savour, to reflect on. It's a film where style is in search of an idea.

| Sep 5, 2023

Moulin Rouge doesn't quite live up to its hype, but it is far more artistic than three-fourths of the films released each year.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 5, 2023

It raises the bar on what a musical can be. And, in fact, on what movies can be.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 5, 2023

It takes a big cinematic appetite to enjoy a magnificent gumbo of movie styles -- old-fashioned musical, techno-rave rock show, open-eyed romance, slapstick farce, tragic drama -- in a gorgeous spectacle that moves at speed.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 5, 2023

Moulin Rouge boasts many moments that are as hilarous in tone as they are dazzling to the eye.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 5, 2023

For those who celebrate risky, questing pictures that give voice and image to singular visions, Luhrmann's foray into realm of absinthe, can-cans and pop tunes is cause for film lovers to kick up their heels.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 5, 2023

Kidman owns this movie and steals scene after scene from her co-stars with a sizzling and scandalous performance. She's so good that you can start thinking about nominations for a Golden Globe and an Oscar.

| Original Score: A | Sep 5, 2023

Moulin Rouge, a provocative acid-blast take on the Hollywood musical, the first big one in a generation, flashes by like a dream and a drunken night at the opera.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2023

You have never seen anything like this Moulin Rouge, and even if you leave the theater dissatisfied, head whirling with confusion, it's one of those rare movies you won't mind seeing again.

| Sep 5, 2023

Ultimately, the human component of Moulin Rouge is dwarfed by director Luhrmann's outlandish visuals and virtuoso use of music. It's unlikely that any other film this year will offer such a feast for the senses.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 5, 2023

Without a strong story and Shakespearean poetry, Luhrmann can only empty is grab bag of Ideas into his "Red Mill."

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 5, 2023

Baz Luhrmann's highly anticipated $50 million musical Moulin Rouge! brazenly assaults the senses with rat-a-tat-tat editing, anachronistic pop songs and kaleidoscopic visuals placed in a setting stuck somewhere between Busby Berkeley and Timothy Leary.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 5, 2023