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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 90
    Variety | Scott Foundas

    Matthew Barney delivers his masterpiece in Cremaster 3, unquestionably the 35-year-old sculptor-performance artist-filmmaker's most linear, most narratively inclined work to date. Read full review

  • 80
    TV Guide | Ken Fox

    Barney has been criticized as willfully esoteric, but if traditional meaning is once again elusive in this film, it remains an enthralling aesthetic experience, one that's steeped in mystery and a ravishing, baroque beauty. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    If Cremaster 3 is an innovative artwork that has been credited with breaking down the distance between sculpture and film, is it also a great movie? Probably yes. Read full review

  • 75
    New York Post | Megan Lehmann

    A tour de force that is weird, wacky and wonderful. Read full review

  • 63
    New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman

    Barney's cinematic art inspires both awe and revulsion, often simultaneously. Read full review

  • 50
    Christian Science Monitor | David Sterritt

    Few of its loosely linked vignettes have enough visual or emotional power to be very memorable. Read full review

  • 40
    Village Voice |

    Offers little beyond the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment. Read full review

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