... the team of Wilder, and his equally insightful collaborator I.A.L. Diamond, who manage to shine a light on the nasty and dark side of human nature, as well as race issues. And boy does it feel so very modern.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 27, 2021

The first joint Lemmon-Matthau effort might be the funniest.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 13, 2020

Walter Matthau leers into the lens with loathsome brilliance while Jack Lemmon gives him a run for his money, pirouetting behind him in a wheel-chair.

| Jun 27, 2019

Wilder remains as much ahead of his time as he was of it, skewering human foibles with a withering eye.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 4, 2019

Matthau, with the role of a lifetime at his hands, seizes it and makes it wonderful. As the incompetent shyster, Matthau snarls, cajoles, is breezy and sniveling by turns.

| Oct 22, 2018

...another bittersweet comedy commentary on contemporary US mores.

| Aug 15, 2007

A very funny film, this morality tale is a deft mixture of cynicism, wit and idealism as only writer-director Wilder could do it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 15, 2007

Wildly funny in spots...

| Aug 15, 2007

Saddled with a thin story.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 17, 2007

It's hard to go wrong with director Billy Wilder, and when you add Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau into the mix, it's darn near impossible.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 21, 2006

The friction between the laughs and the cynicism generates more heat than most Hollywood comedies even aim at...

| Jan 26, 2006

Though not top-notch Billy Wilder, this cynical satire about an unscrupulous lawyer and a 온라인카지노추천 cameraman benefits from good acting by Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon in their first screen teaming.

| Original Score: B | Jul 3, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 8, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2004

Good, but probably Wilder's most overrated film.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 17, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 22, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2003

The trio would move on to better things, but the comic chemistry was tangible from the start.

| May 24, 2003