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All About Eve

Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies

All About Eve

1950

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm ...

8.4

35,940

Drama Margo Channing (Bette Davis), leading dame of the New York stage, is pushed aside by a fresh-faced fan who becomes her understudy, the duplicitous Eve (Anne Baxter). Eve’s humble background and eager innocence fools all while she subtly digs in her claws, tearing Margo from her friends and colleagues as she desperately grasps her chance for stardom.

	Author	Review
United States	Douglas Pratt The Hollywood Reporter	"Mankiewicz's flair for dialog is so perfected that all three actresses shoot fireworks whenever they open their mouths"	POS
United States	Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"Is there anyone alive who hasn't seen All About Eve -- anyone who doesn't love movies, that is??"	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"A withering satire—witty, mature and worldly-wise"	POS
United States	Abel Green Variety	"'All About Eve' has substance in virtually every dramatic and romantic mood, which have been given proper shading and projection by producer Darryl F. Zanuck and Mankiewicz."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Her greatest role (...) Davis was a character, an icon with a grand style, so even her excesses are realistic (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Joseph Jon Lanthier Slant	"The movie may occasionally sound like a collage of monotone epigrams, but the depth of its social rancor is virtually unparalleled in classic film (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Marc Lee Telegraph	"Davis invests her performance with irresistible charisma."	POS
United Kingdom	Ben Walters Time Out	"Joseph L Mankiewicz’s film dissects the narcissism and hypocrisy of the spotlight (...) but pays equal attention to the challenges of enacting womanhood (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Nothing sounds remotely natural (...) Mankiewicz's cynicism is only skin-deep, but the film's tinny brilliance still pleases."	NEU
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Forget Foreman vs. Ali, this is Baxter vs. Davis in one of Hollywood's greatest showdowns (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Rob Mackie The Guardian	"A film whose script is studded with barbed and quotable bons mots, the finest ever part by suave cad George Sanders and a memorable cameo by Marilyn Monroe as an aspiring starlet (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"'All About Eve' possesses one of the best screenplays ever to grace the silver screen. It also has one of the best performances by an actress in the history of Hollywood features (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"'All About Eve' is one of the greatest movies about theatre —an idea that, in itself, opens an ironic abyss into which Mankiewicz spelunks with an impish, riotous aplomb"	POS

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