Show Business (2007) Critic Reviews

Metascore®:

73 =
Based upon 7 Critic Reviews
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The Onion (A.V. Club) | Noel MurrayAdd Critic to Favorites

ShowBusiness is a smart, highly entertaining piece of cinema-reportage, but it never quite rises to the level of penetrating insight or emotional catharsis.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Ty BurrAdd Critic to Favorites

The film's slick and entertaining, an obvious must-see for musical hounds.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites

Captures the flavor of putting on a show on Broadway.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Charkes McNultyAdd Critic to Favorites

The film is a love letter to theater and the people who make it.Read the full review

Wall Street Journal | Joe MorgensternAdd Critic to Favorites

Along the way Dori Berinstein's cameras catch gallant theater people doing what they've done since Sophocles was a pup: rehearsing, revising, worrying, learning, stretching, struggling to bump things up from good to wonderful and constantly, fervently hoping.Read the full review

Washington Post | Philip KennicottAdd Critic to Favorites

ShowBusiness is not so clever nor so entertaining as the popular musical "A Chorus Line," which plied this territory more than 30 years ago, but it does go deeper into the mechanics of the business.Read the full review

The New York Times | Matt Zoller SeitzAdd Critic to Favorites

ShowBusiness is packed with telling details that the director, Dori Berinstein, was lucky to catch on camera.Read the full review

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