50
Ramshackle one minute, pointlessly deliberate the next.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
75
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
Knowing 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.
70
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Neve 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.
80
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Makes the world of ballet, seen by so many as rarefied, accessible and exciting, a rigorous art that yields breathtaking results.
80
The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt
A wonderfully vivid and engaging theatrical experience.
75
New York Post by Megan Lehmann
Campbell 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.
50
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
Not 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.
88
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
A funny valentine by an old master, woos us into the dance.
88
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Why 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?
80
Robert Altman takes an elegant, appealingly unemphatic look at the world of ballet.