As you watch the movie wholeheartedly and uncritically celebrate the group’s “nonconformist” ethos (shouldn’t someone gently break it to them?), you can feel the energy being sucked out of you.
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08/11/09
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Beautiful Losers (2008)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:16
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: An insightful if fawning documentary that explores a group of 90s NYC artists.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
Theatrical Release:07-08-2009
Synopsis: Beautiful Losers celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural moments of a generation In the early 1990's a loose-knit group of like minded outsiders found common ground at... [More]
Starring: Thomas Campbell, Jo Jackson, Cheryl Dunn, Shepard Fairey
Director: Aaron Rose, Joshua Leonard
Reviews for Beautiful Losers
An amiable portrait of the artist as a scruffy slacker, and a useful jumping off point for anyone interested in investigating some of the cultural issues that marked the 1990s and the start of the new millennium.
08/07/09
Top CriticLike the art scene it documents, Beautiful Losers is chaotic, anarchic, rambling and populated by charismatic freaks with statement T-shirts, complicated haircuts and impossibly rare trainers.
08/07/09
Top CriticYou can't help but feel like a bit of an eye-rolling parent, wondering if a few of them might benefit from a proper job and a light slap.
08/07/09
Top CriticThe affection these people have for each other is what makes Beautiful Losers (the name is taken from one of their shows) so attractive.
08/07/09
Prioritising the self over the job means Beautiful Losers is rarely more than a compendium of loveliness and apology.
08/07/09
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04/23/09
That said, all art deserves biography, and great art deserves recognition.
10/18/08
On your deathbed you will want back the time it takes to see this one.
10/18/08
One of the year's best documentaries.
09/26/08
The film's score, by Money Mark, is an entertainment in itself.
09/05/08
An absorbing look at how a circle of dispossessed young artists from the 1990s eventually found its way to mainstream success.
08/29/08
Top CriticThis is a pleasant enough visual romp with surprisingly few down notes.
08/29/08
[An] alternately winsome and irritating documentary about the art scene that grew out of the Alleged Gallery on Manhattan's Lower East Side in the 1990s.
08/08/08
Some of the art is probably interesting, but Rose's own video-influenced filmmaking style leaves little time for inspection or reflection.
08/08/08
[A] pleasant film, which sings the praises of nonconformity.
08/08/08
Though [Director] Mr. Rose can't be blamed for waxing nostalgic, he can't much expect us to care about so fawning and self-serving a document.
08/08/08
Top CriticIt succeeds intermittently and is reasonably enlightening, but whether audiences are really going to warm up to the individuals presented here is questionable.
08/08/08
a celebration of rude and raw art and the kinetic charge of experiencing something fresh and undefiled
08/07/08
Pleasing though less-than-profound homage.
08/07/08
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