During the holiday week we saw five films. Two were new releases, After The Devil Knows, and The Bucket List and three were Bob Fosse revivals which we saw at the Reade Theatre at Lincoln Centre,  Lenny, All That Jazz, and Caberet.

In just a breath: The Fosse films knock the pants off of the new films we saw.

After The Devil Knows was chilling and very well done,  The Bucket List has a concocted “charm”.  Please just explain to me how can running away from it all, and leaving the people you love, be the right thing to do if you know that you do not have long to live? My “bucket” list would be vastly different. It was “charming”, entertaining and pretty dumb. It probably has all it needs to win some awards.

The Fosse films all hold up extremely well over time. This is a good time period to either be reminded about Lenny Bruce or learn about him for the first time, All That Jazz, about the life of Bob Fosse, is a great film and if you love dance you should certainly see it, and Caberet is devastating to see again. Rent them.