A titillating dreamscape of a film that is presented as outrageous and lavish, having the same unbridled flamboyance as the people being portrayed

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 4, 2024

Todd Haynes's valentine to glam rock adopts the genre's styles and strategies with wit, ingenuity and exuberance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2023

... filmmaker Todd Haynes reimagines the Glam rock era and the iconic influence of David Bowie through the kaleidoscopic lens of Citizen Kane.

| Jul 1, 2023

...this film is camptstic and so delicious...

| Nov 9, 2022

The music is thumping and infectious, the costumes of Sandy Powell a show unto themselves.

| Apr 19, 2022

Ultimately, among the sometimes bewildering mash up of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, there are some genuinely tender moments and an overarching celebration of diversity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 30, 2021

Though it is thoroughly engaging and appropriately hallucinatory, the film's Orson Welles inspired story structure and fluctuating tonality is irritatingly cumbersome.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2020

Haynes makes the dream so sweet, you can't help but return again and again to crushing glamor and gorgeousness of Velvet Goldmine.

| Jun 23, 2019

There is a deep sense of ennui embedded in Velvet Goldmine, an acknowledgement that something singular from those years of glam can never be recaptured.

| Jan 14, 2019

I'm telling you, I was bored stiff.

| Feb 8, 2018

Haynes' chronicle of the glam era is visually rich but too dramatically fragmented and overwhelmed by music to permit involvement in the tale's characters or the director's POV.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 23, 2012

The style is devilishly flamboyant and gleefully indulgent; every shot is full of amazing stuff. The edits dance and twist. It's a glam movie about a glam subject.

| Jan 7, 2012

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

Velvet Goldmine gives the rock movie a makeover.

| Sep 1, 2009

While some gay men's fantasies center around muscled jocks, cops or cowboys, Todd Haynes' would seem to be of a slightly more arcane bent.

| Mar 28, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 9, 2005

the ending happens at least half an hour later than it should

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Feb 28, 2005

Repeat viewings will allow one to piece together the fragmented montage as a melancholic ode to freedom, and those who fight for it through art.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 25, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 8, 2004