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

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | 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

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

Baz Luhrmann has stuffed every idea or image that ever entered his head, or pop song that tickled his eclectic fancy, into this likable but fatally cluttered and overwhelmingly red extravaganza.

| Sep 5, 2023

By and large, though, the experience is more benumbing than bewitching, more exhausting than exciting. Moulin Rouge puts you through the mill as no musical has done before.

| Aug 30, 2023

You never quite know what the camera will do, or what the singers will sing, or what colours might suddenly appear...You never know what you will see, and when it comes to motion pictures, that is most crucial thing of all.

| Aug 30, 2023

Luhrmann has too many ideas, too many ambitions to make either a good love story or a good musical. He has become an irrepressible technologist of romance -- an editing-machine genius who crushes music and dance at will.

| Aug 30, 2023

[Luhrmann] fills Moulin Rouge with startling images and deliciously weird performances... But there is nothing holding this movie together -- not a compelling story, and certainly not enough original ideas.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 30, 2023

The film twists time and space, perspective and proportion, to its own ends. On one level, the movie is the most elaborate and original music video ever made. On another, the film is a simple story of love and loss cloaked in garish splendor.

| Aug 30, 2023

Visually trippy, filled with lush sets and sweeping, over-the-top choreography, the film is a magnificent attempt at something but who knows what?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2023

For all the high-camp posturing and stylistic excess, Luhrman has still crafted a transporting, tremendously openhearted, and deeply endearing film that uses the setting of one century and the songs of another to reinvent the musical for the next.

| Aug 30, 2023

Moulin Rouge seems to defy esthetic gravity: by reveling in all things artificial, it arrives, giddily, at the genuine.

| Mar 8, 2018

It's still a one-of-a-kind, we'll give it that. But its sense of fun is so relentless and excessive, it all ends up being extremely tedious and shallow.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 14, 2013

Diverting, energetic, and even reasonably satisfying, so long as you aren't looking for a real musical to take its place.

| Nov 8, 2011

Moulin Rouge is a tour de force of artifice, a dazzling pastiche of musical and visual elements at the service of a blatantly artificial story.

| Jul 6, 2010

Mr. Luhrmann and his colleagues have worked like whirling dervishes to make the plot look like it's moving.

| Apr 27, 2007

If it lacks the emotional punch of Luhrmann's earlier films, and drags towards the end, it is still great fun.

| Feb 9, 2006

Gorgeously decadent, massively contrived, and gloriously superficial.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 22, 2005

The whole 130-minute non-stop sung-through mix of musical opera ballet cabaret and vaudeville high camp low kitsch and power-house glitz is a showcase for Kidman Her performance has enough energy to illuminate the Eiffel Tower.

| Dec 31, 2003

I’ll take a daring failure like Moulin Rouge! over a prefabricated success like The Mummy Returns any day.

| Original Score: C+ | May 9, 2002