The film is flat, without any of the camp, kitsch high energy that characterised the stage show, but its wrongness is never less than mesmerising.

| May 30, 2020

You can't believe what you're looking at because it's so hideous to behold.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Jan 23, 2020

There's a digital veneer of horror and farce and glazed looks, and it just doesn't work, it's not sensibly thought about.

| Jan 13, 2020

While the performances are brilliant and the songs are great, the story isn't as strong as it could be.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 3, 2020

The movie "Cats" is-forgive the critical jargon-pretty good.

| Jan 3, 2020

However amazing the trickery may be... the characters fall awkwardly into the crack between animal and human, and the plot, which requires them to sing and dance in competition with one another, is scarcely more convincing.

| Jan 3, 2020

The problem with the film is that it shouldn't exist in the form that it does, and no single thing would have solved that.

| Dec 31, 2019

Whether you think the imagery is beautiful or nightmarish, this is a film that demands to be looked at.

| Dec 30, 2019

The movie is outlandish and sexual and confusing. But that doesn't make it a bad movie. In fact, I'm going to call it a good movie.

| Dec 28, 2019

It's just baffling and yet it must be seen... It's bad, but you've got to experience it.

| Dec 27, 2019

While it's far from being perfect, or even purr-fect, it certainly doesn't warrant the abuse that has been heaped upon it. At the very least, it deserves a chance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 26, 2019

You might still want to know if it's a good movie, but that is the wrong question. Cats is sui generis.

| Dec 26, 2019

As the trailer suggested, the enduring stage musical is a bad fit for the big screen.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 24, 2019

There's something uniquely fun about seeing the likes of Ian McKellen and Jennifer Hudson fully committing to their down-on-their-paws characters, a spirited sense of shared strangeness.

| Dec 23, 2019

The worst thing about Cats - and I was forced to see two cat burglars sensually drape a string of pearls around the scruff of Hayward in the obvious foray to a cat threesome - is that it was made in the first place.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Dec 23, 2019

This is a film that reeks of misjudgment.

| Original Score: F | Dec 23, 2019

Cats might be a mess, but it's a one-of-a-kind incredibly memorable mess (for better and for worse), and for all I know that's entirely by design.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 22, 2019

This is middlebrow film-making at its most hubristic; too inelegant to coast on spectacle alone, it's not subversive enough to be considered truly camp either.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 21, 2019

It's one of those rare cinematic events that feels like a collective hallucination - improbable and entirely indescribable.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 21, 2019

I spent most of Cats with my hands over my mouth, going "What is happening?"... I had a ton of fun with this.

| Dec 20, 2019