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

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

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

| Aug 12, 2008

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

Whatever this 1972 feature is, it's entertaining and stylish, though maybe not quite as serious as it wants to be.

| Jun 27, 2007

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

...the context of Germany on the eve of the Nazi ascent to power makes the entire musical into an unforgettable cry of despair.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 23, 2004

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 21, 2003

This viscerally powerful, deliriously inspired musical stands the test of time, and then some.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 11, 2002

All are guaranteed to leave Sally Bowles' words ringing in your ears as the credits roll: 'Divine decadence, darling!'

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 10, 2002