Molinaro never explores the ambiguous central relationships, and he doesn't lend the laugh machine of a movie enough speed and wit to work on us all by itself. But at least he puts the performers front and center.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 23, 2024

The result is very funny; and the humor seems to provide something for everyone.

| May 3, 2023

There were segments in this superb film that engulf one in laughter and ones that evoke tears, and I experienced both.

| May 3, 2023

A bright, funny, human spot of comedy.

| Sep 15, 2022

It's clear that if it hadn't been for the work of the actors, the satire and possible critique would have vanished in an instant. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 5, 2019

This adaptation of Jean Poiret's play is as moving as it is hilarious in its depiction of moral hypocrisy and familial love.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2018

Charming and frothy, the movie proves to be about as tame as any old-fashioned bedroom farce, which of course went a long way toward allowing it to be embraced by Americans who generally steered clear of foreign films, gay films, and gay foreign films.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 5, 2013

As an artifact, La Cage Aux Folles remains fascinating. As a film... Well, it plays like a fascinating artifact. Though pokily staged up to its final act, it manages some real laughs.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2013

Renato and Albin shared the same hopes and fears as heterosexual parents and (were) both willing to sacrifice anything for the sake of their child.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 9, 2013

At once dated and timeless.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 18, 2010

Fun & gay, literally, based on hit Broadway show.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2008

Of all the versions, imitations, and sequels, the first 1978 French picture is the best and funniest, a fresh look at machoism and drag queens; the gay couple is superb.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 16, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 18, 2005

The comic turns in the plot are achieved with such clockwork timing that sometimes we're laughing at what's funny and sometimes we're just laughing at the movie's sheer comic invention. This is a great time at the movies.

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

How The Birdcage ought to be done and first was done.

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2004

Le Cage Aux Folles is a giddy French farce.

| Jan 27, 2004

It is slapstick and it is funny. I found it amusing though often strained and occasionally slipping in matters of taste. Whether its humor also is cruel is something you'd have to ask a homosexual to decide.

| Nov 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 7, 2003