Whores' Glory 2011

Critics score:
89 / 100

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Stephen Holden, New York Times: [A] quietly powerful but dispiriting documentary, which compares the world's oldest profession as practiced from place to place. Read more

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: Like a stroll through Amsterdam's red-light district at night. It's an experience far more sad than sexy. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: The film's break from the usual earnest, stat-filled expose is a large part of its appeal, and Glawogger's attention to color and composition don't diminish the quality of the testimony or dip into raw exploitation. Read more

Mark Feeney, Boston Globe: Glawogger has the good sense mostly to stay out of the way and let the material speak for itself. Read more

Mark Jenkins, NPR: To combine stories of exploited Third World women with feisty songs by female Anglo-American rockers is to flirt with glamorization. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Austrian documentarian Michael Glawogger takes his cameras to three red-light districts around the world, and finds life is miserable for the women who work in the world's oldest profession - and for the men who pay cash for sex. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: A daring, novelistic and unforgettable account of the real lives of female prostitutes in three very different countries and social contexts. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: To experience it is to be haunted by the bleakness and ugliness of prostitution, the hopeless trap of it, and the defeat of love that it represents. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: Wallops its points across with stunning, sickening effectiveness. Read more

Mark Holcomb, Village Voice: Whores' Glory demystifies trick turning with a bluntness and sneaky artistry that's sure to make even the most jaded of us choke on our next sitcom-hooker-joke chuckle. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: "Whores' Glory" takes a deadpan, nonjudgmental approach, which generally works well, even if the fly-on-the-wall technique makes clear that what attracts flies usually stinks. Read more