Such gritty material is infused with Wilder’s compassion and defined by two towering central performances.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 5, 2025

The screenplay by Wilder and IAL Diamond is as fresh and sparkling now as it ever was.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 31, 2025

One of the great American films

| Jan 8, 2024

The Apartment works as both poignant tragedy and romantic comedy. As smart as a whip, The Apartment is as enchanting as it is thought-provoking. A terrific examination of the desperation to get ahead in corporate America as well as a study in melancholy.

| Jun 8, 2023

The Apartment is an all-around masterclass in cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 30, 2022

Billy Wilder's The Apartment is a sometimes amusing but basically unpalatable mixture of farce, social satire, and romantic comedy.

| Aug 17, 2022

Though lighter than Arrows 2018 release on the extras front, Kinos 4K of The Apartment provides the definitive home-video presentation of one of Billy Wilders greatest films.

| Apr 18, 2022

The wry and perspicacious Wilder and the more sentimental Diamond fashioned a tale of sexual office politics as microcosm for an externally well-oiled and puritanical America that, internally, was ethically and morally bankrupt.

| Original Score: A+ | Apr 5, 2022

A screen gem that attained classic status in about as much time as it takes to comb one's hair.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 2, 2022

The picture is brimming with crisp, quick one-liners and sharp dialogue – all setting up the next moment of banter. Each conversation or character interaction is an exploration of motivation and rich emotion.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Mar 24, 2022

This is a polished production, naughty, ironic, occasionally poignantly sad, and as sparkling as a Fourth of July fireworks display.

| Mar 16, 2022

Mr. Wilder, possessor of Hollywood's sharpest eye for the witheringly ironic comment on human behavior, is richly blessed with the opportunity to use it in The Apartment.

| Mar 16, 2022

[Jack Lemmon] is a genuine actor, not in the same universe with most of his film contemporaries, who are mere behavers. This picture is not good enough for him. Still, his performance makes it worth a visit.

| Mar 16, 2022

With The Apartment, Wilder outdid himself. Not only is it much better than his previous comedy, but this has several serious and poignant moments that stir one... and, for these moments you can thank Fred MacMurray, Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine.

| Mar 16, 2022

The talk here is a rich blend of the candid and the confidential, and the character analyses are sharp and penetrating. In two hours, The Apartment doesn't strike a single false note; its irresistibility is constant.

| Mar 16, 2022

Director Wilder has come up with another real winner in The Apartment... It is a film with plenty of fun and one that promises hope in a society whose moral standards seems to be rapidly deteriorating

| Mar 16, 2022

Almost any adult human being will get a tremendous bang from The Apartment... Unless your hide is thick as three winterized rhinoceroses, you'll both be yelping with laughter and gulping back tears before this deft piece is done.

| Mar 16, 2022

The dialogue is brilliant with smart alec sparkle and the situations are as adult as one can get by with on the screen, and the performances by all concerned... are gems of alternating humor and pathos.

| Mar 16, 2022

Anybody complaining that modern Hollywood comedy doesn't have the old human touch, the heart once supplied by directors like Frank Capra and Gregory LaCava, ought to see this. It is one of the best films of the year.

| Mar 16, 2022

While the combination of elements might seem curious and perhaps even incompatible, Wilder has effected the blend with a masterly hand, and the total is not unlike that of some of the prewar European comedies which had both bite and boff.

| Mar 16, 2022