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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:51
Rotten:0
Average Rating:9/10
Consensus: Perfectly cast and solidly scripted, this dark Hollywood satire contains a brilliantly self-deprecating performance from Bette Davis. Smart, cynical, terrifically entertaining, and one of the greatest films ever released about the movie industry, All About Eve has retained its edge, and remains a sharp, beautifully-written gem.
Theatrical Release:30-11-2007
Synopsis: Given that she throws tantrums, gets intoxicated, and pushes people away when she needs them the most, it's a wonder New York theater star Margo Channing has any true friends. But when Eve... [More]
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L Mankiewicz's wonderfully literate 1950 classic drama of the theatrical life, All About Eve, is back in the cinema, to be savoured for its language, performances, psychological insights and proof that all the world's a stage.
Put simply, one of the greatest movies ever made.
The peerless tale of two rival drama queens, playing as the central attraction in the BFI Southbank's Joseph L Mankiewicz season, and rightly so.
Top CriticHere is a real Christmas treat: a restored version of Joseph L Mankiewicz's jet-black 1950 comedy about Margo Channing, elegant leading lady of the theatre, superbly played by Bette Davis.
Top CriticA total joy.
Top CriticOne of Hollywood's finest backstage dramas. If nothing else Davis should have been rewarded for services to the tobacco industry.
Top CriticApart from the monochrome photography, all that dates the film is the chain-smoking and the fact that these are theatre folk rather than movie stars (frequent in-jokes about the low art of Hollywood pepper the script).
For old-school Hollywood movie-making at its most polished, literate and sophisticated there is really nothing to match it.
Top CriticImpeccable.
Top Critic[Features] more quotable dialogue in one movie than most screenwriters manage in a lifetime.
Top CriticForget Foreman vs. Ali, this is Baxter vs. Davis in one of Hollywood's greatest showdowns.
Top CriticSanders...was ideally cast in this role: you can feel in Addison's every word the world-weariness of the actor who would eventually commit suicide at age 65...
Fantastic!
It crackles with smart, smarting dialogue.
Top CriticThe Zanuck production investiture is plush in every department.
Top CriticThere is so much to admire in All About Eve, even for those too young to be drenched in nostalgia for the spectacle of Bette Davis unleashing her sharp tongue.
Still retains its stagy power to provoke theater lovers by its elaborate wit and campy bad taste.
Intelligent script ... mesmerizing performances
The hoped-for tone of Restoration comedy never quite materializes, perhaps because Mankiewicz's cynicism is only skin-deep, but the film's tinny brilliance still pleases.
Amazing performances top the list of positive qualities in Joseph L Mankiewicz' All About Eve.
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