Average Rating: 8.3/10
Reviews Counted: 32
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 1
Great performances and evocative musical numbers help Cabaret secure its status as a stylish, socially conscious classic.
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 1
Great performances and evocative musical numbers help Cabaret secure its status as a stylish, socially conscious classic.
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Originally a 1966 Broadway musical, this groundbreaking Bob Fosse musical was in turn based on Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin, previously dramatized for stage and screen as I Am a Camera with Julie Harris as Sally Bowles. Fosse uses the decadent and vulgar cabaret as a mirror image of German society sliding toward the Nazis, and this intertwining of entertainment with social history marked a new step forward for the movie musical. Michael York plays a British writer who comes to
PG, 2 hr. 4 min.
Feb 13, 1972 Wide
Apr 28, 1998
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
All Critics (32) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (32) | Rotten (1) | DVD (10)
Bob Fosse's direction is as chaotic as it was in his previous Sweet Charity, a desperate scramble after a style.
The screenplay, which never seems to talk down to an audience while at the same time making its candid points with tasteful emphasis, returns the story to a variety of settings.
Whatever this 1972 feature is, it's entertaining and stylish, though maybe not quite as serious as it wants to be.
...the context of Germany on the eve of the Nazi ascent to power makes the entire musical into an unforgettable cry of despair.
Everybody in Cabaret is very fine, and meticulously chosen for type, down to the last weary transvestite and to the least of the bland, blond open-faced Nazis in the background.
Influential '70s musical features sex and mature themes.
Let's just say it: the best thing going in director Bob Fosse's tour de force is Joel Grey. As the Master of Ceremonies at the infamous Berlin Kit-Kat club, Grey steals every scene he's in and makes us hope for more.
simply masterful in every way
A great classic film.
After a decade of stagnant musicals, Bob Fosse reenergizes the genre with a dazzling, intelligent, and socially conscious musical more reflective of the zeitgeist of the 1970s--Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey are brilliant.
Superbly choreographed by Fosse, the cabaret numbers evoke the Berlin of 1931 - city of gaiety and perversion, of champagne and Nazi propaganda - so vividly that only an idiot could fail to perceive that something is rotten in the state of Weimar.
The classic musical..much better than Chicago
Chilling Fosse vision of Weimar Berlin, stylishly directed and choreographed, featuring a show-stopping musical performance by Minnelli, Grey's unforgettable emcee and thoughtful acting from Michael York.
Life is a cabaret, mien herr! This musical about a cabaret performer and her lovers was perfect for the 70s. I especially love York's performance in the movie. This is a great film.
September 5, 2010Super Reviewer
Cabaret is just alright. Not really being a fan of musicals I'm slightly weirded out that I was entertained most by the grotesque musical numbers. The story got old once Liza Minnelli's charm wore off after the first hour but the Nazi storyline (and "Tomorrow Belongs To Me") and that final shot balanced it out. Bob
November 5, 2006Super Reviewer
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