Despite the tomfoolery on view, the story manages to build to a moving finale.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 10, 2024

As a whole it is excellent entertainment, and has proven to be a fine vehicle for the talents and versatility of the notable cast.

| Dec 16, 2020

[Cabin in the Sky] is one of the most charming, entertaining and thoroughly enjoyable pictures that Hollywood has sent out in some time.

| Dec 16, 2020

It is something for you to go out of your way to see and hear.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 16, 2020

Ethel Waters has great emotional power not only in her singing of "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" and "Taking a Chance On Love," but in every gesture and mood she portrays.

| Dec 16, 2020

[Cabin in the Sky is] a fantasy that has great moments and other moments which rise little above the routine of the common or garden Hollywood musical.

| Dec 16, 2020

For sheer entertainment Cabin the Sky is high up on the list of current film attractions.

| Dec 16, 2020

The chief fault, it seems to us, is the unimaginative direction of Vincente Minnelli who never takes full advantage of the motion picture medium's facilities for creating fantasy... If Minnelli has fumbled his opportunities, Miss Waters has not.

| Dec 16, 2020

The sum total is definite entertainment.

| Dec 16, 2020

Like many star-filled pictures, this one never really shows off its crowded heavens.

| Dec 16, 2020

There is enough variety to give some measure of pleasure to every one who can be induced to see the film.

| Dec 16, 2020

One of the strongest and most unusual film programs to be offered on local screen in some considerable time.

| Dec 16, 2020

Too seldom do members of this race have the chance to exercise their great theatrical talent on the screen. Given full scope in this picture with music, the result is a zestful and amusing entertainment.

| Dec 16, 2020

The superb artistry with which [Ethel Waters] is so richly endowed is constantly in evidence, not only in her interpretation of the songs but in the emotional power she displays, as well as the gayer manifestations.

| Dec 16, 2020

The same good taste in every thing that marked Cabin in the Sky as a superior work in the theater also stamps the screen version, and the spirit of fantasy, which stumps Hollywood so frequently, comes through here with the greatest of ease.

| Dec 16, 2020

Cabin in the Sky would be worth the price if only to permit observation of Miss Waters' acting skill.

| Dec 16, 2020

One of the most beguiling of fantasies brimming over with laughs and music and the sort of homespun pathos that's so dear to all Americans.

| Dec 16, 2020

A spectacular production full of entertainment good music and good humor.

| Dec 16, 2020

Ethel [Waters] has a grand voice, which would move the heart of an angel -- and it does.

| Dec 16, 2020

The film achieves moments of exuberance and spontaneity which appear to be as much enjoyed by players as by audience.

| Dec 16, 2020