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SummaryDirector/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), a womanizing, drug-using dancer.

Directed By:Bob Fosse

All That Jazz

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Metascore
Generally Favorable
72
62% Positive
8 Reviews
31% Mixed
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8% Negative
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Empire
Savagely witty on backstage life and audaciously edited, Jazz stands alongside Cabaret as the best “musical” of the last 20 years.
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Newsweek
An actor of great integrity, Scheider at last makes the powerful impression we've been waiting for; he plays Joe with wonderfully delicate and telling detail. You see all the lusts and weaknesses, but you see also an underlying sweetness, a kind of forlorn and desperate innocence that makes something deeply human out of good, bad, weakness, strength, triumph, defeat and all that jazz. [24 Dec 1979, p.78]
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Slant Magazine
All That Jazz may be Fosse’s finest cinematic achievement.
75
LarsenOnFilm
Bob Fosse’s half-confession about what a jerk he was to the women in his life may pull a lot of punches, but there’s just too much art on the screen to completely disregard the effort.
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TV Guide Magazine
All That Jazz is great-looking but not easy to watch; Fosse's indulgent vision at times approaches sour self-loathing, and nothing like the explicit open-heart surgery had been seen on mainstream American screens, let alone the morbid song-and-dance routines in an operating theater.
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Washington Post
By the time the film is over, the movie has degenerated with a jaundiced vengeance. Fosse's sour, grandstanding cynicism imposed an intolerable burden of self-pity on his talent, our compassion and the tradition of the backstage muscial.
30
Time Out
The jokes are relentlessly crass and objectionable; the song'n'dance routines have been created in the cutting-room and have lost any sense of fun; Fellini-esque moments add little but pretension; and scenes of a real open-heart operation, alternating with footage of a symbolic Angel of Death in veil and white gloves, fail even in terms of the surreal.
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Feb 1, 2026
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famfacat
혹여 내가 별볼일 없는 개차반으로 스러질까봐그렇게 마지막을 미루고 미루며 "쇼"를 외치던 조이는제 마음에 길이남을 준비를 마치고그 모든 재즈의 막을 내린 아니 막에 싸인다.비행기에서 자막없이 보았고 옛 영어라 조금 더 난해했지만 모든 시퀀스에 담긴 정성스러운 땀냄새에 마음이 찌글거렸다. 왠지 조금 울고싶은 이유는 그 머릿속에 울린 환호를 듣는 것에 조차 큰 자격이 필요하단 것이 매워서.210630 (4.5)-1. "I said everything old is new again."2. 보글보글하고 끓었던 열정은 개차반이 된 가래와 함께 퉷하고 예술이 되어 뱉어졌다.3. 딸래미 너무 사랑스럽다.4. 나만이 들을 수 없게 흘러가는 세상. 내게 뭣이 중헌가.5. 감독이 죽으면 모든 투자자가 개막도 없이 돈을 버는 존재 자체가 개그였던 개차반 조이6. 조이의 첫 아내분 끼가 넘치시고 정말 매력있으시다 꺄.7. 아빠더러 죽지 말라 노래하면서 화려한 퍼레이드의 여왕으로 지나는 딸의 모습. 그 모습은 내심 자신이 딸의 삶에 독이됨을 미안해하고있던 조이의 마음이 드러난 것 같다.8. "Why? Don't you like musical comedy?" ㅠ9. "Bye bye life. Bye bye happiness. Hello. Loneliness. I think I am gonna die." 이토록 섹시한 죽음에 대한 순응 ㅠ_ㅜ10. "Bye bye love. Bye bye sweet 커레스트. Hello emptiness. I feel like I could die. Bye bye your life good bye. Bye bye my life good bye.” 이토록 유쾌하게 죽어가는 시작부터 쇼였던 조의 삶 그 자체로 재즈. 올 댓 재즈.11. 감각적인 파이널 시퀀스가 내가 태어나기 10년 전에 나온 영화임을 믿기 어렵게 만든다.
Jul 6, 2021
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joelgreenberg
I saw All that Jazz on its first run, in 1979, and at the time I was moved by some of it, although I grew increasinglky annoyed as the film moved to its narcissistic conclusion. Watching it again today, I am struck by the vile nature of the Fosse surrogate, played by Roy Scheider. The scene that most evokes this response is one following a night of sex with a dancer named Victoria. The rehearsal hall is awash in dancers and Victoria is being put through her paces by her choreographre-lover - he humiliates her, berates her, drives her to tears and then he takes her aside to say he can't make her a great dancer, but he hopes and wants to make her a good enough dancer. He has that power, of course, to make or break - and Victoria, speaking through her sobs, smiles at hime as he pats her head and the assembled company of artists, who have been witness to this assault, applaud the victory. In 1979 this was icky, and in 2021 it is downright sick-making.
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  • Columbia Pictures
  • 20th Century Fox
Dec 20, 1979
2 h 3 m
R
All that work. All that glitter. All that pain. All that love. All that crazy rhythm. All that jazz.
Academy Awards, USA
• 4 Wins & 9 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
BAFTA Awards
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
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