I think this is one of the strongest Fosse-directed movies that benefits from instead of being consumed by his neurosis. It's a bit hard to evaluate this movie on it's own merits when I have so much familiarity with various revivals of the stage show (and for example prefer the B-Couple in the stage show to the one in this movie), so I'm not really going to bother too much with that.
I do think that this movie has the…