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A.O. Scott, At the Movies: RJ Cutler had plenty of access, but it's pretty clear that from start to finish it was Anna Wintour who was in control of this movie. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: It's kind of irresistible. Read more
Joanne Kaufman, Wall Street Journal: The September Issue is old news, all the more so given the recent recession-driven transformation of the magazine landscape. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: While it's fun for fashionholics just to watch a movie in which people say "It's a famine of beauty!" and "The jacket is the new coat," the film becomes more substantial as it narrows its focus to two people: an artist and a curator. Read more
Ruth Hessey, MovieTime, ABC Radio National: The real Anna Wintour, the perennial editor/dominatrix of American Vogue, is much more fascinating than Meryl Streep's version. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: What emerges is a kind of comic thriller about the insult of having hard work ignored or heartlessly omitted, as Wintour does to several images from one of Coddington's photo shoots. Read more
Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: A slight, if often riveting, behind-the-scenes documentary. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: There's something fishy about a documentary that takes its cues from a fictional movie. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: [Cutler] worms his way into subcultures without judgment or probing, preferring to let group dynamics speak for themselves. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: [A] wise, engaging frock-umentary. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: A mesmerizing study of the tension between commerce and creativity. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: I came away from The September Issue liking Anna Wintour more than I thought I would, but mostly with an appreciation for her mission: not just to sell magazines, to market clothing and style, but to give femininity its sheen. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: What we do come away with is an appreciation for clothing and photography as art forms and the kind of work and emotion that go into each issue, especially the September issue, the largest each year for its fall fashion features. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: It'd be nice (and fair) if Cutler dared ask Wintour about her reasons rather than framing her march to the layout room as though she's a Chanel-suited Darth Vader. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: In director R.J. Cutler's snappy documentary about the making of the September 2007 issue of Vogue editor Anna Wintour exhibits an icy, unflappable veneer. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Cutler never mentions animal fur, sweatshop labor or any issues that can make fashion seem less than fabulous. The September Issue is more about surface than depth, much like its subject. And in case you're wondering: Yes, this movie makes you look fat. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: If a syllable could kill (and it can, can't it?), the movie would be the Texas Chainsaw Massacre of the stiletto-heeled and dagger-toothed. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Coddington, at least, gives us an appreciation of the talent seeing to it that the grandest fashion magazine of them all still sells the dream of glamour with style. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This seems to be a woman who is concerned with one thing above all: The implementation of her opinion. She is not the monster depicted by Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada, but then how could she be? Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Wintour steers a tight ship. Coddington reminds her that Vogue has a history based on something more than profit. In the end, they're a winning combination. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: R.J. Cutler's vibrant and mischievous documentary The September Issue is only partly a movie about fashion. At its heart, it's really a movie about work, about the ways individuals compete with, grate against and inspire one another in the workplace. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: What's most conspicuously missing from this ensemble is some input from the advertisers who subsidize Wintour's tyranny, and the readers who are seduced into buying her beautiful four-pound paperweights. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Grace, the movie implies, is the genius behind what Vogue really sells, which is romantic aspirational fantasies for women. Read more
Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: The movie offers insights that lift it beyond the realist version of The Devil Wears Prada. Read more
Ben Walters, Time Out: Consistently funny and engaging, 'The September Issue' is also a window onto the top echelon of an industry in which fanciful escapism is deadly serious. Read more
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: Wintour's arctic imperiousness has a way of creating the most masochistic deference, a dynamic that R.J Cutler superficially explores -- and becomes prone to -- in his documentary The September Issue. Read more