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Great performances and evocative musical numbers help Cabaret secure its status as a stylish, socially conscious classic.
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Bob Fosse's direction is as chaotic as it was in his previous Sweet Charity, a desperate scramble after a style. Aug 12, 2008 | Full Review…
Bob Fosse's direction is as chaotic as it was in his previous Sweet Charity, a desperate scramble after a style.
Jay Cocks
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. Jun 27, 2007 | Full Review…
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.
Variety Staff
Whatever this 1972 feature is, it's entertaining and stylish, though maybe not quite as serious as it wants to be. Jun 27, 2007 | Full Review…
Whatever this 1972 feature is, it's entertaining and stylish, though maybe not quite as serious as it wants to be.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
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. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
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 context of Germany on the eve of the Nazi ascent to power makes the entire musical into an unforgettable cry of despair. Oct 23, 2004 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
...the context of Germany on the eve of the Nazi ascent to power makes the entire musical into an unforgettable cry of despair.
Roger Ebert
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. May 21, 2003 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
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.
Roger Greenspun
Cabaret (1972) is director/choreographer Bob Fosse's defining, decadent, award-winning musical which popularized the phrase: "Life is a Cabaret." It was only Fosse's second film, but won numerous accolades... Sep 28, 2019 | Rating: A+ | Full Review…
Cabaret (1972) is director/choreographer Bob Fosse's defining, decadent, award-winning musical which popularized the phrase: "Life is a Cabaret." It was only Fosse's second film, but won numerous accolades...
Tim Dirks
The Bowles cycle is a gruesomely instructive guide to our worst show biz conventions. Jan 9, 2018 | Full Review…
The Bowles cycle is a gruesomely instructive guide to our worst show biz conventions.
Wilfrid Sheed
A truly great movie adapted from truly great source material, but it achieves most of its greatness by thoroughly gutting and re-imagining that source. Aug 19, 2017 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
A truly great movie adapted from truly great source material, but it achieves most of its greatness by thoroughly gutting and re-imagining that source.
Tim Brayton
"The Nazi musical," as star Liza Minnelli glibly put it, has felt pertinent for a long time. Aug 15, 2017 | Full Review…
"The Nazi musical," as star Liza Minnelli glibly put it, has felt pertinent for a long time.
Rob Vaux
It's an all-time masterpiece, mercurial and timeless. I am changed every time I see it. Jun 7, 2013 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
It's an all-time masterpiece, mercurial and timeless. I am changed every time I see it.
Walter Chaw
Cabaret is in some respects a typical feel-good musical, yet it's also so much deeper than that. Feb 8, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Cabaret is in some respects a typical feel-good musical, yet it's also so much deeper than that.
Mike McGranaghan
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