Glawogger’s final feature journeys through Thailand, Bangladesh and Mexico, finding different degrees of (attempted) dignity in labor and all-out exploitation while remaining counterintuitively gorgeous to look at.

| Jan 24, 2023

The women interviewed in Whore's Glory are presented discussing personal experiences, frustrations, and hopes with honesty and humor, and it's these stories that make this documentary definitely worth your time

| Jan 12, 2021

Shines a light in the darkness on the seedy, gritty, shocking world where sex is little more than a business.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 6, 2019

Glawogger's latest slice of global miserableness may not be eyeopening, but it's honest.

| Jul 9, 2019

Glowagger's display of the range of consequences that come with the sex trade make for one of the best documentaries of the year.

| Original Score: 7.9/10 | Jul 3, 2019

The women of Whores' Glory seek...salvation in their faith, but this sometimes glorified look at their lives reveals only the darkest nights of the soul.

| Aug 30, 2018

For a film with such fraught subject matter, Whores' Glory feels ultimately empty. Whether or not that's the ultimate comment on these lives is unclear.

| Jun 13, 2016

"Whores' Glory" takes a deadpan, nonjudgmental approach, which generally works well, even if the fly-on-the-wall technique makes clear that what attracts flies usually stinks.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 6, 2012

Glawogger works hard at being objective and dispassionate and unsentimental, but he's clearly on the side of the working girls, and horrified by their salivating johns.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 14, 2012

Glawogger has the good sense mostly to stay out of the way and let the material speak for itself.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 14, 2012

The hopelessness of (the prostitute's) situation sometimes infests Glawogger's film, making it all seem pointlessly depressing at times, but it is a powerful work nevertheless.

| Jun 5, 2012

We pass through the eye of the needle and learn how the world works, for better or worse.

Full Review | May 31, 2012

To experience it is to be haunted by the bleakness and ugliness of prostitution, the hopeless trap of it, and the defeat of love that it represents.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 24, 2012

A daring, novelistic and unforgettable account of the real lives of female prostitutes in three very different countries and social contexts.

| Apr 28, 2012

Austrian documentarian Michael Glawogger takes his cameras to three red-light districts around the world, and finds life is miserable for the women who work in the world's oldest profession - and for the men who pay cash for sex.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 27, 2012

[A] quietly powerful but dispiriting documentary, which compares the world's oldest profession as practiced from place to place.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 26, 2012

Like a stroll through Amsterdam's red-light district at night. It's an experience far more sad than sexy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 26, 2012

Whatever qualms there may be, it's never less than compelling: entirely atmospheric, vulgar, and boundary bursting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 26, 2012

The film's break from the usual earnest, stat-filled exposé is a large part of its appeal, and Glawogger's attention to color and composition don't diminish the quality of the testimony or dip into raw exploitation.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 26, 2012

Wallops its points across with stunning, sickening effectiveness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 24, 2012