'…My Man Godfrey’s class critique stings…La Cava’s comedy has more social relevance that a dozen ‘prestige’ pictures…’

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 22, 2024

This scintillating comedy was the first film to be Oscar-nominated in all four acting categories.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 2, 2020

It is a wonderful film with a conscientious mind.

| Aug 10, 2020

It remains one of the very best screwball comedies of the era, as well as one of the greatest movies ever made.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 30, 2020

An excellent farce, given an extremely lavish production; it should keep audiences laughing from the beginning to the very end.

| Jul 8, 2020

Arguably the best of these reliably eat-the-rich films...the film's satirical edge emerges from its pillorying of the propertied classes and the empty promise of economic recovery.

| Jun 19, 2020

A frothy, frivolous farce...

| May 5, 2020

It then turned out that My Man Godfrey was really about the class-struggle, not the best subject in the world for comedy. Best not to stay for the ending. It leaves you with the feeling that the whole thing was a waste of time.

| Aug 8, 2019

While My Man Godfrey is full of witty dialogue and classical direction, it's the film's social awareness that really stands out today.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 29, 2018

Gregory La Cava's warm and giddy carousel, a raucous burlesque with a beautiful still center, a lighter and tarter savior fable than Capra's concurrent transmutations of the Gospels

| Mar 29, 2015

Hasn't lost an ounce of its thematic resonance even after all these decades.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 10, 2013

There's a charm to both Powell and Lombard, making the film transcend generations. It's a cute movie that has fun with levels of wealth in society and sibling rivalry.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2012

My Man Godfrey emerges with that evasive quality that is not skillful playing, writing or direction, but something that mysteriously adds itself to these things, and makes a tip-top picture.

| Apr 24, 2009

A brilliantly executed screwball, full of both madcap humour and bitter satire.

| Feb 6, 2009

[A] screwball masterpiece.

| Feb 6, 2009

God, but this film is beautiful.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 6, 2009

Gregory La Cava's improvisational style received its highest critical acclaim for this 1936 film, a marginally Marxist exercise in class confusion during the Depression.

| Feb 6, 2009

William Powell and Carole Lombard are pleasantly teamed in this splendidly produced comedy.

| Oct 18, 2008

Director Gregory La Cava was a master of the sustained comedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 24, 2007

Its whimsical winning nature still comes through.

| Original Score: B | Mar 10, 2006