Review of Moulin Rouge! (2001) by Malek R — 19 Sep 2012

One of the greatest musicals ever made. Baz Lurhmann has set very high standards for how musical films should be made !!

This review of Moulin Rouge! (2001) was written by Malek R on 19 Sep 2012.

Moulin Rouge! has generally received very positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

Moulin Rouge! (2001) Movie Reviews (803)
Moulin Rouge! (2001) Critic Reviews (105)
Moulin Rouge! (2001) User Reviews (698)

More Reviews of Moulin Rouge!

Review of Moulin Rouge! (2001)

By L A (71) on 19 Dec 2017

Absolutely awesome movie that you you'll never tire to watch because of the cinematic artistry and story…

Read Review

Review of Moulin Rouge! (2001)

By Sachineldho (42) on 15 Apr 2019

Silly fairy tale which is unnecessarily long, dull and boring. The set and the camera are good, but the movie has nothing else of importance…

Read Review

Review of Moulin Rouge! (2001)

By Panchogul (602) on 29 Apr 2020

Moulin Rouge…

Read Review

Review of Moulin Rouge! (2001)

By Mark Jay K (158) on 08 Apr 2018

Flashy and trippy, Moulin Rouge wholly embraces the absurdity of musicals which will either alienate or convert audiences…

Read Review

Review of Moulin Rouge! (2001)

By Lando L (2) on 19 Dec 2017

Absolutely awesome movie that you you'll never tire to watch because of the cinematic artistry and story…

Read Review

Review of Moulin Rouge! (2001)

By Toni S (459) on 29 Apr 2017

Just when you thought they didn't make movie musicals anymore along comes this gem…

Read Review

Review of Moulin Rouge! (2001)

By Bfoore90 (601) on 07 Apr 2020

A little over-the-top and weird at times but Moulin Rouge! still holds up as an extravagant and heartfelt film…

Read Review

Review of Moulin Rouge! (2001)

By Carly G (37) on 24 May 2017

I love this so much as an viewer I was singing a long to the songs very cleverly done and intertwined into the plot without spoiling it…

Read Review

Review of Moulin Rouge! (2001)

By Cineautoctono (479) on 12 Jan 2018

Moulin Rouge! It was an extravagant movie but incredibly emotional. The photography, the costumes and the songs are very good…

Read Review

Review of Moulin Rouge! (2001)

By Shanya B (4) on 20 Apr 2018

This movie is a love letter to classic romance tales. Make sure to put that in your mind…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of Meet Joe Black (1998)

By Jack Kroll (152) for Newsweek (1,534) on 02 Nov 2009

Every once in a while a film comes along that's so inexplicably ghastly that there's just no point in making nice about it…

Read Review

Review of Wild at Heart (1990)

By Hal Hinson (447) for Washington Post (9,851) on 05 Aug 2008

What Wild at Heart feels like is a kind of housecleaning -- a disjointed collection of images and odd snatches of ideas that the director couldn't…

Read Review

Review of Monster (2003)

By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 10 Sep 2007

Phony choppers and a startling resemblance to Jon Voight aren't enough to transform Theron into Wuornos, and I didn't buy either the performance…

Read Review

Review of Caché (2005)

By Fantasy (142) on 02 Feb 2006

I had heard through the grapevine that this was suppossed to be a great movie…

Read Review

Review of Shaft in Africa (1973)

By Srdjan M (126) on 13 Apr 2008

Wow, I did not dig this at all. It is really weird... Like crocodile Dundee only not funny and kind of pointless…

Read Review

Review of The Edukators (2004)

By Man J (23) on 23 Oct 2009

Precocious & slacker-cool, the whimsy that is The Edukators takes a long time and a lot of overwrought dialogue to reach an easy-out fizzle…

Read Review

Review of Brute (1997)

By Lee M (4,001) on 08 Feb 2017

Between a 5/10 and 6/10, the primary problem here is with the lead actor and the script he has been given…

Read Review

Review of Casablanca (1943)

By Kalrion (1) on 22 Jun 2020

What a miserable and overrated movie. I'm not even counting the fact that the film itself is quite biased. Don't spend your precious time watching it…

Read Review

Review of The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

By Sydmwswy (27) on 23 Jun 2022

Toxic movies that I hate forever I really believe that films like this harm not only the cinema but also our world…

Read Review

Review of Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)

By Bosley Crowther (448) for The New York Times (9,847) on 31 Dec 1997

Another French film that fairly glitters with photographic and cinematic style, yet fails to do more than skim the surface of a cryptic dramatic…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

61%141 Reviews

Mad Max: Fury Road

2015

83%1,378 Reviews

The Menu

2022

70%145 Reviews

Ready Player One

2018

72%1,541 Reviews

Bullet Train

2022

66%170 Reviews

Parasite

2019

87%251 Reviews

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

2019

81%344 Reviews

Babylon

2022

68%144 Reviews

Where the Crawdads Sing

2022

63%92 Reviews

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

2021

66%228 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Moulin Rouge!

2001

78%803 Reviews

Taken 3

2014

47%761 Reviews

Please Give

2010

69%461 Reviews

L.A. Story

1991

69%386 Reviews

Grandma's Boy

2006

64%663 Reviews

Seventh Son

2014

43%675 Reviews

Comic Book Villains

2002

45%43 Reviews

Gattaca

1997

77%786 Reviews

Star Trek: First Contact

1996

77%763 Reviews

We Are Still Here

2015

57%237 Reviews