Cremaster Cycle (2010)

Critic Reviews

• Nathan Lee, Village Voice

  Matthew Barney's humongous riff on struggle, reproduction, conceptual drag, and several dozen strands of narrative gobbledygook is undeniably something to be reckoned with--if only as a relic of the boom years in contemporary art.

• Richard Knight, Knight at the Movies

  Undeniably the work of a unique artistic vision.

• Ian Buckwalter, DCist

  It's too easy (and inaccurate) to write these films off as willfully opaque art world pretension. This is challenging, formally audacious, uneven, and sometimes confounding work - as ambitious an undertaking for the viewer as it was for its creator.

• James Verniere, Boston Herald

  Lady Gaga's vids and maybe even Katy Perry's Betty Boop surrealism are more fun, less pretentious and shorter.

• Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix

  The six and a half hours of Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle is sheer movie tedium, inert and unmoving, broken up by imagery that's more irritating than fascinating in its self-indulgent preciosity.