The barbed dialogue is witty and wonderful, delivered with tart insolence by Bette Davis as ... an aging Broadway lioness who watches ruthless cub Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) pull out her claws as she purrs and insinuates herself into stardom.

| Aug 19, 2023

A penetrating anecdote on the viciousness of narcissism, cynicism, deceit, and celebrity, All About Eve is one of the most revolutionary and sharp-edged screenplays ever written.

| Jun 8, 2023

All About Eve proved to Hollywood that Bette Davis wasn't ready to quit and it remains one of the greatest films ever made.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 26, 2023

The writing and directing by Joseph L. Mankiewicz are superb, and the acting is Academy-Award all the way.

| Aug 16, 2022

It is a very long piece, and it often seems long, though never when Bette Davis is on the screen; Miss Davis as the Broadway star, insolent, stormy, waspish and terrified of growing old, is magnificent.

| Aug 8, 2022

Joseph L. Mankiewicz's bad taste, exhibited with verve, is more fun than careful, mousy, dehydrated good taste. His nonsense about "theatre" is saved by one performance that is the real thing: Bette Davis is at her most instinctive and assured.

| Jul 28, 2022

You'll want to see All Abut Eve a couple of times.

| Jul 26, 2022

Bette Davis has never done anything better.

| Feb 17, 2022

The script is well capable of carrying out the film's intentions -- it is, indeed, an admirable piece of work and not lacking in wit.

| Feb 17, 2022

It has been a long time since the screen has offered us anything as adult, as full of insight, or (in the favorable sense of the word) as sophisticated as All About Eve.

| Feb 10, 2022

Allows its stars to chew up the scenery whilst taking swipes at the stereotypes and clichés of Broadway theatre.

| Aug 17, 2021

All About Eve does a very difficult thing consummately. It deals with the egotistical, over-articulate, emotionally undisciplined people of the theatre and paints them as credible human beings rather than eccentric caricatures.

| Jul 15, 2021

It is smart and shiny and it is sparked by a set of high-voltage performances that wring just about every ounce of wit out of director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's crackling script

| Jul 13, 2021

So breath-takingly sharp and tense a story of the theater could hardly be so vital without some fragments of truth In its background.

| Apr 6, 2021

As the young hopeful whose pretended naivete and ingratiating manners mask a hard, ruthless determination, Anne Baxter is at her dramatic best.

| Original Score: 3/3 | Apr 6, 2021

All About Eve is undoubtedly the best picture of the year, even better than Sunset Boulevard.

| Apr 6, 2021

This is a sophisticated picture, something 'way, 'way off the beaten Hollywood track.

| Apr 6, 2021

The great charm of All About Eve, apart from its wit and genuine understanding of human nature, is the story's gradual unfolding.

| Apr 6, 2021

If you miss [All About Eve] you'll miss the treat of your life. You'll miss Bette Davis in the grandest performance she ever gave as the aging actress who is case-hardened by success.

| Apr 6, 2021

A scintillating, stimulating, extraordinary achievement.

| Apr 2, 2021