No single aspect is examined with any meaningful depth.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 4, 2020

Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's will bare little semblance to reality for most people. However, as a window into a world which few of us will enter, it makes an entertaining diversion from the everyday norm.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2019

Close to hagiography-but who cares when faced with such an entertaining valentine as this.

Full Review | Jun 27, 2014

No, it's not hard-hitting journalism about retail fashion or conspicuous consumption. It's more like a graceful authorized biography of an institution.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Mar 3, 2014

Even people who find fashion really, really interesting will be bludgeoned brain-dead by this fawning, attention-deficit infomercial of a documentary.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 5, 2013

Once-upon-a-time tales about Elizabeth Taylor ordering 200 pairs of mink earmuffs, or Yoko Ono's Christmas Eve $400,000 furs-splurge, can't compensate for a lacklustre storyline about the famously intricate Chrimbo shop windows.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 2, 2013

There's probably a brilliant documentary to be made at New York department store Bergdorf Goodman. No such luck

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 2, 2013

A maddeningly unquestioning look at a retail citadel.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 1, 2013

...works both as a large format infommercial for the store and a Rorschach for those of us with our noses pressed against those windows, watching the elaborate working displays of decorator David Hoey. Are we amused or envious?

Full Review | Original Score: 87/100 | Sep 3, 2013

For lovers of fashion who think of designers as Greek gods, and Bergdorf's as their Olympus.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 22, 2013

The overall feel is less of a cohesive documentary and more of a slapdash scrapbook of facts, historical information and name-dropping.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 6, 2013

Much of the window dressing has gone out of fashion. It's nice to revisit it here.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 31, 2013

It's fun to take a glimpse into this rarified world, but it's also a little off-putting when one interviewee explaining Bergdorf's appeal frames it as the aspirational apex of the American Dream.

Full Review | Original Score: C | May 30, 2013

As a sociological exercise, it's like another culture. As a film, it's like science fiction, a visit to Planet Obscenely Wealthy. It is weirdly compelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 30, 2013

What's it like to try on clothes at one of the most expensive stores in the world? You won't find out in Matthew Miele's documentary.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 24, 2013

A fascinating doc that accurately captures the luster of the venerated fashion mecca and shows why Bergdorf's has become an American institution ...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 23, 2013

A gloriously gilded wonderland - the stuff of dreams, on view for everyone.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 23, 2013

[A] fawning documentary, bankrolled by Goodman descendant Andrew Malloy ...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 23, 2013

It's a shame that more time isn't spent inside wandering around the establishment Miele is celebrating, as the pixie dust of elitism and fashionista fawning wears off in a hurry.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | May 23, 2013

It's entertaining, but it might be more pleasingly watched with a fast-forward button.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 23, 2013