As presented, Cabaret is something else again: a pretentious, bad musical.

| Sep 10, 2022

It’s hard to believe it’s half a century since Cabaret first sashayed into cinemas: in look, sound and sensibility, it still feels fresh and daring, expanding the possibilities of what musicals can do and say at every turn.

| May 31, 2022

It repeatedly castigates political complacency and boasts one of the most chilling camera movements in cinema history...

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 6, 2022

The music is great, yes, but it is the themes at the center of Isherwoods remembrances that hold the most power.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 3, 2022

Episode 39: Ma / The Souvenir / Lenny / Cabaret

| Original Score: 90/100 | Oct 4, 2021

I was an instant convert to Fosse's Cabaret: it was and is nothing but the movie for me. It concentrates Fosse's interest in stories about style-its power to define and transform, to dominate and subdue.

| Sep 18, 2020

The main characters' inebriated antics never seem to amount to anything potent or moving or simply involving.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Aug 27, 2020

The bright, manic glee is countered by small moments of stunning brutality, moments that increase in frequency, size, and viciousness as the film progresses.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 16, 2020

Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey are electrifying; director Bob Fosse's choreography and the camera work are scintillating.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2020

If brash Minnelli seems a mite too talented for the Sally Bowles character, it really doesn't matter: she is, quite simply, magnificent in this role.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 12, 2020

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...

| Original Score: A+ | Sep 29, 2019

The Bowles cycle is a gruesomely instructive guide to our worst show biz conventions.

| Jan 10, 2018

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.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 19, 2017

"The Nazi musical," as star Liza Minnelli glibly put it, has felt pertinent for a long time.

| Aug 15, 2017

It's an all-time masterpiece, mercurial and timeless. I am changed every time I see it.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 7, 2013

Cabaret is in some respects a typical feel-good musical, yet it's also so much deeper than that.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 8, 2013

Influential '70s musical features sex and mature themes.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 4, 2010

Bob Fosse's direction is as chaotic as it was in his previous Sweet Charity, a desperate scramble after a style.

| Aug 12, 2008

simply masterful in every way

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 20, 2008

A great classic film.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 25, 2007