
Barney plays the Entered Apprentice and his opponents include the Order of the Rainbow for Girls (who look a lot like the Rockettes), Agnostic Front and Murphy's Law (two New York Hardcore bands), Aimee Mullins, and Richard Serra. Molten Vaseline, dental surgery, a demolition derby by vintage Chrysler Imperial New Yorker cars and a gorgeous creature who is half-cheetah/half woman all figure in this latest edition of Matthew Barney's fever dream. Much of the action takes place... (Full plot summary below)
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Barney plays the Entered Apprentice and his opponents include the Order of the Rainbow for Girls (who look a lot like the Rockettes), Agnostic Front and Murphy's Law (two New York Hardcore bands), Aimee Mullins, and Richard Serra. Molten Vaseline, dental surgery, a demolition derby by vintage Chrysler Imperial New Yorker cars and a gorgeous creature who is half-cheetah/half woman all figure in this latest edition of Matthew Barney's fever dream. Much of the action takes place in two New York landmarks, the Chrysler Building and the Guggenheim Museum, as well as at the Saratoga Racetrack (upstate NY), the Giant's Causeway (Ireland) and Fingal's cave (the Scottish Isle of Staffa).
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| New York PostMegan TurnerBarney has created a tour de force that is weird, wacky and wonderful. |
| Los Angeles Daily NewsBob StraussBarney's ideas about creation and identity don't really seem all that profound, at least by way of what can be gleaned from this three-hour endurance test built around an hour's worth of actual material. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezMatthew Barney's five-part, out-of-sequence Cremaster Cycle culminates with Cremaster 3, his most accomplished work to date. |
| VarietyScott FoundasMatthew 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. |
| San Diego Union-TribuneNeil KendricksPersonifies experimental filmmaking pushed to new extremes. |
| New York PostMegan LehmannA tour de force that is weird, wacky and wonderful. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin Clifford"Cremaster 3" should come with the warning "For serious film buffs only!" |
| The New York TimesStephen HoldenIf 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. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe filmmaker ascends, literally, to the Olympus of the art world, but he would have done well to end this flawed, dazzling series with the raising of something other than his own cremaster. |
| DCistIan BuckwalterMay be the best combination of everything that Barney does best in this series: the striking visuals, a definite narrative, and enough variety to keep things interesting. The final sequence, "The Order," is as engaging as this series gets. |