73
Metascore
32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonA funny valentine by an old master, woos us into the dance.
- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertWhy did it take me so long to see what was right there in front of my face -- that The Company is the closest that Robert Altman has come to making an autobiographical film?
- 80The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttA wonderfully vivid and engaging theatrical experience.
- 80VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyRobert Altman takes an elegant, appealingly unemphatic look at the world of ballet.
- 80Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasMakes the world of ballet, seen by so many as rarefied, accessible and exciting, a rigorous art that yields breathtaking results.
- 75New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardKnowing that the director is Robert Altman gives you a good idea of what to expect: a demimonde of locker-room chatter, catty sniping, backstage politics, high art and low self-esteem. Altman constructs the movie with the same cross-currents of his other ensemble movies.
- 75New York PostMegan LehmannNew York PostMegan LehmannCampbell is a sweet presence and a capable dancer, featured in a theatrical pas de deux on an open-air stage during a wild thunderstorm that is one of the film's visual highlights.
- 70Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumNeve Campbell, who cowrote the story with scenarist Barbara Turner, plays one of the dancers; although her character isn't especially interesting, her story furnishes a minimal narrative thread to hold the rest together.
- 50Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonNot a farce, or comedy or drama, but essentially a doodle interrupted by nouveau ballet performances, the entire contraption assembled to please the ego of Neve Campbell.
- 50PremiereGlenn KennyPremiereGlenn KennyRamshackle one minute, pointlessly deliberate the next.