Dr. T & the Women (2000) (2024)

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• Review by the homeless rockstar of palo alto ★★★★★ 4

  Call me a vulgar auteurist I don't care cause this was some serious kino. Think UNCUT GEMS or A SERIOUS MAN but about a gynecologist who's slowly losing control over the women in his life as he realizes he does not understand them. This picture gets super chaotic and I was losing my mind. There are some maybe not so good scenes that make me think this deserves a 4.5/5 but dang this was too much of an experience. Dr. T is one crazy fella.

• Review by Matt Singer ★½

  Now hold on a second: Dr. T and the women?!?

  Extremely minor (though not altogether unpleasant) Altman until the final five minutes, which has to be amongst the worst, most batsh*t crazy endings I have ever witnessed.

• Review by Jay D 's Watching ★★★

  Not quite a triumph on the level of some of his other films (by design, it feels, this is very much a lark of some kind or other) not a failure, I guess this would be....low-key Altman? Very much a movie about the craziness of being buffeted by the winds of life and having no idea what's going on, and also very much being a movie about being a man and spending a lot of time surrounded by women -family, friends, colleagues, lovers, who you respect and admire and care for, but don't really understand, it's possible to read the entire film as a bit of a joke at Gere's expense I think, while also being possible NOT to read…

• Review by Fabian ★★★ 17

  Robert Altman's divisive ensemble drama Dr. T & the Women is regarded as one of his lesser works, but shows Altman operating at the height of his talent when it comes to directing large ensembles full of colorful characters. The problem is, most of the characters in this commentary on gender constructs and social dynamics are exaggerated caricatures that are played for laughs, which makes it very amusing to watch, but also seems strongly at odds with the profound character work that appears to bubble under the surface, but never quite manages to emerge. Dominated by Richard Gere's performance as a womanizer losing control of the women in his life, Dr. T & the Women nails many of the more provocative scenes,…

• Review by Janica ★★★★ 8

  Love hangs onto everything, accreting like rust on your first car. Seeing someone’s sick, blotchy, exhausted face where yesterday there was perfection, or seeing the buoyant façade of the person you love collapse when they think no one’s looking, or hearing the story that any fool would know had already been told three times before: love, having no reason, absorbs all these things as nutrients. Indeed, the DNA test for romantic ardour is the presence of such flaws. When the flaws are no longer beloved, they are merely errors— and this is where love comes to its end point. But while love flourishes, the flaws are consumed ecstatically. Freud called love “the overestimation of the object”; I’d prefer to call…

• Review by Victor ★★★★ 7

  Dr. T is a bizarre, ridiculous, savage, ironic film filled with innuendo’s, commentary on gender dynamics, a score with a bass so sexy it feels like it could turn into a p*rno any minute, a hilarious Richard Gere performance and some stellar direction from Altman. There are definitely some dull and poor moments dispersed throughout the film, and what Altman is trying to do is hard to entirely synthesize, but some of his best work is found here, in my opinion. The opening of the film is absolutely brilliant and sets up the bizarre world of the film perfectly. The opening credits are masterful, with Altman’s knack for long takes navigating a lot of people and multi-tracked dialogue creating a…

• Review by Frank Ritz ★★★★½ 10

  Altman’s A Serious Man. It’s a wild ride you gotta experience yourself, can’t say too much. I will say that it’s so f*cking funny, and gotta love any good arc that revolves around “self proclaimed feminist may be a misogynist”. Was worried at first that this wasn’t dunking on our lovable dipsh*t, but I shoulda never doubted Altman.

  Vulgar, with a capital V.

  
  EDIT; the DVD menu is maybe the funniest ever.

• Review by Palma Ltd. ★★★★★ 1

  This is like a remake of Truffaut's Day for Night but instead of being about the film industry it's about male gynecologists. It's virtually perfect and is a high-water mark on Altman's career as a director. Do not underestimate this film in the slightest; it's funny, smart, treats the audience and characters with respect, and has one of the most magical endings I've ever had the pleasure to witness.

• Review by eddie ★★★★

  Dr. T took care of business last night; he led the pack in nominations and had his hands full taking home all that hardware. Charles Chaplin also had seven nominations between City Lights and Verdoux, with Tom Green rounding out the nomination leaders for Freddy Got Fingered. What awards ceremony am I talking about? Not the Oscars of course, that bourgeoisie mickeymouse display, but Extended Clip's First Annual Golden Geres, presented by Dr. T and the Women. Listen up to find out who won best picture, best performance, biggest penis, best jacking off, the man about town, the Dr. T award for loving women, and much more.

  
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• Review by the homeless rockstar of palo alto ★★★★★ 2

  So much of what Robert Altman has been going for converged into one fascinating slice of life rom-com gone haywire. Altman has often explored male protagonists with a growing bewilderment concerning their surroundings. It's always the culture. In DR. T AND THE WOMEN, the titular hero's environment is nothing but women. He has control over his life, his family, his environment, but slowly as is usual for the Altman protagonist, the control and the confidence goes away until he's stuck in a world he no longer understands probably because he never looked at it the right way. Never in an Altman film has it been more literal, chaotic, and surreal. A pure delight of comedy and commentary with an ending that leaves you with a lot to think about. Watching this on DVD was a game-changer.

• Review by TheOwlBlind ★★★★★ 2

  A misunderstood, largely underestimated late-directorial effort from Robert Altman, possibly my favorite American filmmaker.

  Everyone goes into this expecting a quirky romantic comedy, but I’d argue the film is closer to something like Lost Highway (1997). It’s a fugue or psychodrama, viewed through the roving lens of one of Altman’s more characteristic ensemble dramas.

  On the surface, we have the typical intersection of crisscrossing family dilemmas, gatherings and character vignettes, all leading up to a significant social occasion (a wedding). This is familiar territory for Altman. However, beneath the surface of these Altmanesque ‘short cuts’, we have the central throughline of Dr T and his unravelling existential crisis, which is modeled on ‘the book of Job’ (or is it Sulivan’s…

• Review by TheCultureShocker ★★★★ 2

  Gotta say, I don't understand the hate.

  I enjoyed this more than The Long Goodbye, but I'm probably insane.