A true classic. It's about advancement, ambition, corruption and adultery, and it operates as both a satire and a sorrowful romance.
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09/12/08
The Apartment (1960)
90 %
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Reviews Counted: 40
Fresh: 36
Rotten:4
Average Rating: 8.3/10
Consensus: It has perhaps aged poorly, but in The Apartment, director Billy Wilder's customary cynicism is leavened here by tender humor, romance, and genuine pathos.
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT blends his customary harsh cynicism with a humane streak that appears only fleetingly in his films. It stars Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter, an office clerk who curries favor with the executives in his office by... [More]
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Edie Adams
Director: Billy Wilder
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Reviews for The Apartment
Top Critic
There is no better demonstration of the art of Billy Wilder than this sophisticated blend of sweet and sour, tender and heartless.
02/20/08
Most of the time, it's up to director Wilder to sustain a two-hour-plus film on treatment alone, a feat he manages to accomplish more often than not, and sometimes the results are amazing.
08/15/07
Top Critic The overlong drawn-out one-hook themed Apartment seemed a tad more bare than furnished.
03/16/07
Billy Wilder somehow took a story about infidelity and suicide and made it into a comedy.
01/01/07
I wouldn't call this 1960 picture one of Billy Wilder's best comedies -- it's drab, sappy, and overlong at 125 minutes.
12/13/06
Top Critic Billy Wilder further enhances his filmic resume with this tender portrayal of a lonely man who may soon get what he deserves. Jack Lemmon is terrific.
11/15/06
The first comedy to win the Oscar since 1944's Going My Way, the Apartment, the serio-comedy about "little people" in N.Y.C. (Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine) is not vintage Billy Wilder, but it's well-acted.
06/05/05
Humanism and cleverness age like fine wine, even if served with spaghetti strained with a tennis racket.
05/06/05
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