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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineA very good musical that should have been a great musical. Bob Fosse, making his film directorial debut, couldn't convey the verve he injected into the play to the movie version.
- 70Time OutTime OutNo masterpiece, but a generally underrated musical all the same.
- 60EmpireDavid ParkinsonEmpireDavid ParkinsonThis has a lot of good ingredients but just doesn't quite manage to pull it off. It's looks dated and Shirley Maclaine doesn't quite capture the sympathies of all audiences.
- 50The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelAlthough Shirley MacLaine tries hard, it's obvious that her dancing isn't up to the demands of the role. It's a disaster, but zoom-happy Fosse's choreographic conceptions are intensely dramatic, and the movie has some of the best dancing in American musicals of the period.
- 40The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbySweet Charity, the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, has been so enlarged and so inflated that it has become another maximal movie: a long, noisy and, finally, dim imitation of its source material.