Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

While I'm not a fashion fanatic, I did watch Devil Wears Prada and I was interested to find out more about the enigmatic Anna Wintour. This movie only skims the surface of life at Vogue, but given the complexity of people, places and objects involved in creating just one issue, the film makers did a pretty good job. I didn't always understand what people were saying. There were too many mumbling asides. But there were some genuine insights, such as how down to earth Anna's sidekick, stylist Grace Coddington is, yet very much an artist. You see how Vogue is not just an observer in fashion, it's a catalyst, a driver of what's coming up. There are some absorbing scenes -- the skinny model eating a cake, the cameraman roped in to a photo shoot, and the agonising debate about which cover photo to use. Wintour proved a tough nut to crack. She's naturally very stiff upper lip. Not intentionally at all, it's just her nature. She's obviously an excellent editor and well-respected. However apart from some of her comments about her family, I felt she remained a closed book.

I loved this documentary: clearly, Anna Wintour wears Prada. In the flesh. Whether or not you have any interest in fashion, this is a relevant piece that delves into the inner-workings of a POWERHOUSE of institutions...& how she runs a fashion magazine. This work is undoubtedly a labor of love, an obsession, a life, a religion, an undeniable passion that demands a sacrifice of self. Anna Wintour IS Vogue. She takes care of business like she was born to do it -- & unlike anyone else. It is awe-inspiring how much ONE PERSON can influence/change the world. Witnessing that, alone, makes this film worth the time to watch.While the movie unfolded, it was difficult to refrain from comparing Anna Wintour to the character of Miranda Priestly, for obvious reasons. Anna Wintour's Vogue turned out to be much more interesting to me than any bit of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. There was nothing condescending about Anna Wintour's countenance, comparatively. She is stoic, unwavering, steady, certain, respectful, honest, demanding, strict, serious -- yes. But not demeaning. HOW TO SAY "NO" WITHOUT FEELING GUILTY has nothing on Anna Wintour! Long live the Queen.

How can one woman hold so much power in a multi-billion dollar industry? The September Issue shows all the mind-blowing meticulous and uncompromising work that went behind the biggest issue of American Vogue, the September 2007 840-page phone book-thick fall fashion bible. If you thought Meryl Streep in Devil Wears Prada was, well, a devil, then the real-life pope of international fashion whose word on all things sartorial is doctrine and canon will leave you speechless as she makes the most famous and esteemed designers nervous like little girls who doubt that they know even a single thing about clothes, puts into trash $ 50,000 worth of fashion editorial work, and dictates to major retailers what the rest of us are going to wear.However, the more profound aspects of this documentary are the less notorious driving or hindering forces of multi-million-copy-selling Vogue. Anna Wintour, aka "nuclear Wintour," has chinks in her armor. After all, every deity is a human first, and Anna is a mother to a daughter who thinks that the fashion industry is "amusing," a sentiment shared by Anna's three other siblings. To the commander-in-chief of couture and prêt-a-porter, this seems to send an unwelcoming weakness. Juxtaposed with Anna is creative director Grace Coddington, the apparent warmness to Anna's iciness. Pushing each other has been the norm for their 20 years of working close together. The dynamic between the two is exciting, frustrating, and a necessary endeavor to produce the pages of fashion's most revered reference. Fashion people will eat up this film. However, normal people/fashion outsiders will not regret seeing this insightful piece about how it is to be supremely powerful, what it takes to be at the pinnacle, and the costs of this might and glory.

I was interested in this movie for two reasons: one, because I love fashion and everything it stands for, and two, because I wanted to see Anna Wintour's persona in a movie other than The Devil Wears Prada, which, I suspected, might have painted her a little bit darker than she really is.The movie is not disappointing. It a great documentary, with lots of great music. You have a feeling that it shows the industry for what it really is: it doesn't add and it doesn't remove anything. If it's really that close to the truth, only people from the industry can tell.The movie doesn't have a specific plot -since it's a documentary- but it focuses around the process of putting together the September issue of Vogue. A lot of staff is shown, in their daily habitat, in between clothes, photographers, make-up flying everywhere. They're not shown as people who are too sure about their jobs: they love them, of course, but there is a lot of insecurity in their actions. What I really enjoyed about the movie was its lightness. Wintour is depicted as a delightful, professional person, rather quiet, not too bitchy, not too shy. She definitely knows what she wants: she points shots that need to be removed from the photoshoot, she vetoes decisions stylists around her make, and she just goes forward with a great deal of sureness and confidence. That confidence adds a lot of comfort to the movie, and isn't cold at the same time.Overall, the movie will be probably raved about mostly by fashion addicts like myself. It's not a necessary position to have or to watch, but its certain wisdom makes the experience enjoyable, and for that, I truly recommend it.