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02/03/04
Cremaster 2 (1999)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:8
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.6/10
Director: Matthew Barney
Reviews for Cremaster 2
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02/03/04
the 1977 execution of Gary Gilmore (played by Barney, with prosthetically reduced penis) is figured as a rodeo ride to the death
02/02/04
Bizarre and incomprehensible, full of imagery that's intriguing and creepy ... and this time quite sexy as well.
02/02/04
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01/15/04
Top CriticIt's a little longer than Cremaster 1, and it has extra room for more confusing craziness.
12/22/03
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11/18/03
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08/27/03
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08/02/03
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07/08/03
Darkly powerful.
06/04/03
Barney defiantly makes expensive avant-garde movies that proudly flaunt both their extravagance and their obscurity, and while they’re salient forays into notions of history and narrative to be sure, they’re also sallies of the genius Artist writ large.
04/12/03
The narcotized self-satisfaction of [Cremaster 1] is, however, preferable to the narrative Cremaster 2 (1999), which, twice as long.
04/12/03
It is Gilmore's story and his family history, evoked symbolically, that give Cremaster 2 a solidity and emotional depth that are missing in the earlier, more playful installments.
04/12/03
Top CriticA tantalizing melange of dreamlike riffs on the desolation of the American west, the empty poses of male ritual, and the blood lust of macho fetishism.
04/12/03
Easily the most plot-driven in all of Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle, Cremaster 2 still conveys the thematic obsessions that drive the series, and stands as one of its most accessible entries.
04/11/03
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