All That Jazz is so head-spinning because it's a deeply felt, deeply stylish, deeply alive movie about disconnection, degradation, and estrangement that abounds in lewd, boozy, intellectualized poetry. The fusion of those various contrasts was Fosse's great specialty, and it's right there, subsumed, in the film's rococo photography and, especially, in the amazing dance numbers, which revel in a tone of macabre erotica...
Chuck Bowen
August 25, 2014