Boogie Woogie

Boogie Woogie (2009)

  • 36% of critics liked it
    (22 reviews)

  • 19% of users liked it
    (998 ratings)

This jet-black comedy of manners observes the doings and intersections of many despicable characters, including egomaniacal, self-serving artists, soulless agents, and nasty sexual predators. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

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Genres
Drama, Comedy
In Theaters
Apr 23, 2010 Wide
IFC Films

Critic Reviews

  • Stephen Holden, New York Times

    [The film's characters] are so repellent that almost everyone outside the movie's fetid hothouse will want to flee to fresher air.

  • Lou Lumenick, New York Post

    Goes over the top now and then, but overall it's a lot of nasty fun.

  • Rex Reed, New York Observer

    A tepid spoof that only occasionally evokes a reluctant smile.

  • Eric Hynes, Time Out New York

    A travesty no matter how you look at it, this flaccid art-world farce is best approached as a landmark of dubious ensemble work.

  • Aaron Hillis, Village Voice

    Director Duncan Ward tries way too hard to nail a way too easy target in his sub-Altman ensemble spoof of the overpriced, overhyped, overly pretentious modern-art scene.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Universal D


    Disposible comedy supposedly about the upper echelons of the art world aesthetic, where what everyone really wants is the most expensive painting, and maybe to sleep with the wife of whoever owns it, or her close friend, or her dog walker. It's like a oversimplification of joke:… More

  • Nicki M


    Average. It started out very bad - over the top hammy acting, very unconvincing and just all round bad. Thankfully it does pick up a little, and it has a good cast including Amanda Seyfried, Heather Graham, Gillian Anderson and Alan Cumming. Can't say I loved it,and they could… More

  • Manu G


    Not a good movie, it kinda has all actors that can't act in a single movie. Story was kinda sucky and non interesting. A comedy of manners set against the backdrop of contemporary London and the international art scene.

  • Chris G


    I am so sick of these fucking ensemble films. It was fresh and new in the '90's. Well here's a damn news flash: the '90's were ten years ago. Let's try to do something different or at least use a different structure. Instead we get a handful of people… More

  • Veronique K


    obviously this movie tries hard to be smart (or just clever?) and cynical on the absurdities of avant-garde world of upper-class art galleries. and the story all begins with an abstract art-piece called boogie-woogie, then you see how those top-drawer people cold-bloodedly turns every… More

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