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Plaza Suite Reviews
It is a minor agony: humorless, loveless, calorie-scared.
| Jan 29, 2024
Even though Mr. Matthau is one of America's finest comic actors, I found most of his work here filled with desperation, quite like the rather ratty hairpieces he wears to differentiate the three characters he plays.
| Aug 29, 2021
You get three Walter Matthaus for the price of one here, as he cynically bulldozes his way through three acts of Neil Simon's play about the goings-on in a swanky hotel suite.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2021
It may be there could never be too much Matthau. With "Plaza Suite" and "A New Leaf" he has reestablished himself as one of our funniest actors, proving that role selection is a crucial element in an actor's competence.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 29, 2021
Hiller directs his cast with the assurance that he knows the characters they are portraying, loves them and can laugh at their foibles.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 29, 2021
"Plaza Suite" goes sour immediately and even talented performers the caliber of Walter Matthau, Barbara Harris, and Lee Grant can't quite salvage the film treatment of Neil Simon's three-act hit play.
| Aug 29, 2021
I found most of the film flatly uninspired and too mechanically locked into the wordy comedy that worked so much better on the stage.
| Aug 29, 2021
While the film seems considerably less funny than the play, It is still reasonably entertaining and, in addition to a quartet of winning performances, it has a share of typical Simon insights into the often troubled world of romance and marriage.
| Aug 29, 2021
A bright, diverting comedy... enriched by not one but four stop-the-presses performances.
| Aug 29, 2021
A funny, funny picture.
| Aug 29, 2021
A marvelously entertaining film...
| Aug 29, 2021
In Arthur Hiller's rigid transcription of Neil Simon's Broadway one-acters set in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, Matthau essays not one part but three. Each is unique, all are achingly comic.
| Feb 8, 2018
Each of the femme stars is given much screen time and the result not only is excellent spotlighting of their own talents, but also an adroit restraint on Matthau's presence.
| Mar 26, 2009
Mediocre Neil Simon-based flick with some frantic work by Matthau and Co.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 13, 2008
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 14, 2005
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 19, 2005
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 26, 2004
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2004
For Matthau it is a tour de force, a reminder that before the man became heavily in demand as a comic performer he was one of the best character actors in the business.
| Nov 20, 2003