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

Wildly funny in spots...

| Aug 15, 2007

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

| Jan 26, 2006

Mr. Wilder's last film and a comedy of unrelieved vulgarity, but it has style and taste.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000