The frosty Winter is renowned for being something of a human steamroller, but the documentary shows the more interesting character to be her right-hand woman and creative director, Grace Coddington...One for the fashionistas.

| Apr 25, 2019

If you are interested in fashion, it's a fascinating look behind the scenes.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 11, 2018

Insubstantial though it is, The September Issue has its pleasures and even revelations.

| Jun 1, 2015

The September Issue is a misshapen, mix-and-match affair, an ill-fitting ensemble of individually compelling pieces.

| Oct 20, 2014

Give [Anna Wintour] a knife and a temper-raising goose and she wouldn't be out of place chasing a screeching Karen Black around her apartment.

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

The September Issue is like the world's most perfect accessory; pointless, but difficult not to look at. And look at it long enough, you might actually find you like it.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Apr 1, 2011

full review at Movies for the Masses

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 11, 2010

The War Room director R J Cutler is a serious filmmaker, and while some may think fashion is a less than serious subject (Wintour's daughter Bee being one of them, as we find out in one amusing scene), his film is a riveting insight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 4, 2010

a more perfect representation of the eternal struggle, and even more eternal dependence, of art and commerce, there could not be.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 17, 2010

R. J. Cutler's documentary appears to gloss over many pertinent details and the filmmaker has been accused of being too easy on Wintour, but The September Issue is incisive, detailed and somewhat cruel.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 23, 2009

Grace, the movie implies, is the genius behind what Vogue really sells, which is romantic aspirational fantasies for women.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2009

sporadically successful, but mostly feels stranded at the surface, possibly because its insider-ism gets the best of the filmmakers by keeping them so trapped inside the Vogue universe that we never hear any outside voices

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 10, 2009

For some, fashion might not seem like exciting material, but director R.J. Cutler is able to create some genuine suspense and tension, as the days and hours count down to the "close" of the issue.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 8, 2009

While it's fun for fashionholics just to watch a movie in which people say "It's a famine of beauty!" and "The jacket is the new coat," the film becomes more substantial as it narrows its focus to two people: an artist and a curator.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 1, 2009

A mesmerizing study of the tension between commerce and creativity.

| Original Score: A | Sep 25, 2009

They say that when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at you. Looking into the sunglasses of Vogue editor Anna Wintour must be kind of like that. Except that you never think to yourself, "I wonder if the abyss thinks I look fat in these jeans?"

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 25, 2009

In its way, The September Issue is about expert craftsmen toiling away at a factory, albeit an unimaginably glamorous one.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 25, 2009

Cutler takes an often riveting nuts-and-bolts look at what goes into creating the Vogue September issue, and it's a shame that he isn't more focused on the procedural.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 23, 2009

Grace Coddington, Vogue's Creative Director, is the secret weapon the movie needs. One sits through all the Anna Wintour stuff just to get back to her.

| Sep 19, 2009

An insider's view of high fashion's ultimate tastemakers proves it's not just for aficionados.

Full Review | Sep 18, 2009