McQueen

"McQueen" doesn't even have to try to make the case for McQueen's brilliance. It's all there, right on the screen; this dude was artistically bonkers in all the right ways.

[The directors] would have done well to shear away the obscuring frills of polite encomiums and pay more attention to the structural details of both the man and what he made.

McQueen is a haunting biography that goes beyond even that live runway experience to conjure the visionary himself, in as much as he may ever be known - and in a way even his savagely beautiful clothes themselves cannot.

Even if the fashion industry is the least of your interests, this handsomely photographed rise-and-fall story offers intriguing glances into the toxic lifestyle of a creative genius.

If you have any intention of seeing "McQueen" make sure you see it in a theater for full effect.

A savagely beautiful tribute that the late, irreverent fashion designer Alexander McQueen would surely have appreciated.

While this documentary shows the viewpoints of many of his close friends and family, it barely skims the surface on the deep darkness that had overcome the designer.

As a depiction of life splattering and changing something luminous, it's vivid, almost violent and certainly intoxicating.

This is a visually powerful, emotionally draining documentary.

McQueen's great legacy is the beauty and skill that lay beneath the compulsion to outrage.

What keeps McQueen from being a brilliant doco is its willingness to skim over the darkest parts of the designer's life.

As incredible, luscious and painful as McQueen's legacy, this is fashion history well worth studying.