—
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Film
Film1960
The Apartment
Directed by Billy Wilder
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve. From TMDB
200 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
—
No Data
Sentiment labels for these sources are still being hand-checked; no score yet.
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 76 | 2 | 92 |
| Mastodon * | 8 | 0 | 18 |
| TMDB reviews * | 4 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
What people are saying
A written summary appears once the title has a score.
At a glance
The Apartment is a 1960 comedy drama romance film, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray.
- 168 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews
- posts span Jan 8, 2013 to Nov 4, 2026
Assembled from TMDB, Wikidata and Steam fields and our own counts, nothing written by a model. Method
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
200 public posts have mentioned The Apartment so far, but it needs 10 opinionated reactions from checked sources before it gets a score. Seen it? Post your take.
The Experts
90%
avg of 3 sources
The People
—
audience score
Reactions
60 of 200 · most liked firstNow joining the #TCMParty for some Wilder. 1960 was such a wild year for film: The Apartment, Psycho, Breathless, La Dolce Vita, Trou, Rocco and His Brothers, and much more. I saw The Apartment 4k restoration on the big screen a couple of years ago, the outdoor scenes are incredible. #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →“Whenever I am very miserable, I do a comedy. And whenever I’m in a wonderful mood, then I make a serious picture. I make a serious picture, a film noir, but then it gets boring, so I go back to a comedy." — Billy Wilder THE APARTMENT (1960)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Apartment is a Christmas movie and a New Year's Eve movie and a perfect movie, period
positive · AI labelView post →This introduction of a key to the executive washroom is one of a hundred Wilder structural masterstrokes of The Apartment. Everything you ever need to know about screenwriting is in this movie. The repetition and lyricism of the picture means that the film is as much music as anything. #TCMParty
positive · AI labelView post →Rewatched The Apartment for the first time in many years. The tonal balance Billy Wilder pulls off in that movie is astonishing. It's the kind of thing you can only pull off when you understand absolutely everything you're doing, and even then, everything has to go perfectly.
positive · AI labelView post →watched The Apartment for the first time in years and god that movie goes so hard. one of the best final lines in history
positive · AI labelView post →1961 THE HUSTLER (Rossen) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ This spare, lean movie is—like The Apartment, now that I think about it—about loneliness, moral complicity, and abusive systems that make both inevitable. But no hopeful heart this time; this is a mean dog and it eats whatever it can catch. Entire cast is astonishing.
neutral · AI labelView post →A good friend hit me up for film recs similar to The Apartment to watch with people they had over. (The Apartment is singular!) I suggested several films including The Lady Eve (which they went with). But my suggestion of Design for Living was shot down as “too old”. These friends were film majors.
neutral · AI labelView post →So ... I'm pretty new here. I'm obsessed with movies, screenwriting, and storytelling. Any advice what to do, who to follow, posting etiquette, and so on ... much appreciated. This place feels *way* friendlier than ... you know. Requisite photo: "The Apartment" (my favorite movie).
positive · AI labelView post →[P] THE APARTMENT is a Christmas movie. Also: Fred MacMurray was so damn great at playing a duplicitous shitheel on screen.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatched the Apartment for the first time in forever last night. Man, that movie still goes. Entertainment-wise.
positive · AI labelView post →Turned on TCM just in time to get in on my annual rewatch of THE APARTMENT. End of year kismet, babyyyyy
positive · AI labelView post →Any typos spotted in this post attended a screening of The Apartment as a part of the yearly program for their local film society last night. If typos spotted, they'll be planning a Billy Wilder movie marathon for the near future starting with Some Like it Hot.
neutral · AI labelView post →just now learning that the film Loser (2000), best remembered for being featured in the music video for "Teenage Dirtbag," is a sort-of remake of The Apartment as a teen rom-com?
neutral · AI labelView post →Editorial wishcast time. Respond w/1 artist (living or not) & the book or film you’d like to see them adapt or continue as a comic. I’ll start: Alex Toth on Billy Wilder’s “The Apartment.” He’s drawn Jack Lemmon, Shirley M is a Toth sketch come to life, & Toth could nail the sweetness & the cynicism
neutral · AI labelView post →After Christmas you should watch two movies • The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder film. Think Mad Men but a critique of capitalism set at this time of year in NYC) • The Thin Man (1934, pre code comedy detective flick that’s witty and boozy and, again, set in NYC over Christmas)
neutral · AI labelView post →#filmsky #TheApartment #Wilder IT’S MONDAY.
neutral · AI labelView post →'die hard is a christmas movie' blah blah blah whatever 'the Apartment' is a Christmas movie? *now* you've got my attention!
neutral · AI labelView post →65 years ago today, you could come to the theatre and watch THE APARTMENT. The film would go on to win five Oscars including Best Picture! Writer / Director / Producer Billy Wilder won three Oscars for the film.
neutral · AI labelView post →The film score for The Apartment was performed in A-Flat.
neutral · AI labelView post →#Edwards1000SixtiesMovies 4/1000: THE APARTMENT C.C. Baxter lends out his apartment to his employers as a quick way to get promoted up the corporate ladder. Everything works excellent-wise in this film, overall-wise!!!
positive · AI labelView post →this was a really funny movie to watch after rewatching The Third Man and The Apartment (1960) last night. i'm allowed to have a bionicles too. i think the way the rahkshi's heads split open is awesome. and the way they fly around like crazy frog for some reason.
neutral · AI labelView post →To me his best movie is The Apartment
positive · AI labelView post →Watched The Apartment (1960) for the first time last night and absolutely lost my mind, it's so good??? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about this movie?? It rules so hard?? I have such a crush on Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine now??
positive · AI labelView post →Tokyo Story - The Apartment - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. All masterpieces that I absolutely loved. Blue Film, however, just didn't click with me; very provocative and uncomfortable. #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky #films #movies 📽️🍿
positive · AI labelView post →Operation: Watch All The Movies I Own (in no particular order) Movie 1: THE APARTMENT (1960, d. Wilder) Arrow Academy Special Edition Blu-ray AA042 (2018)
neutral · AI labelView post →my salvo in the annual '______ Is A Christmas Movie' war is 'The Apartment' (1960) dir: Billy Wilder 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →A great film from each year of the 60s: 1960: The Apartment 1961: A Wife Confesses 1962: An Autumn Afternoon 1963: The Big City 1964: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1965: Le Bonheur 1966: The Hero / Nayak 1967: Le Samouraï 1968: The Swimmer 1969: La Piscine #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →FRANK'S FILM REVIEW: THE APARTMENT ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 The Apartment, written and directed by the brilliant Billy Wilder, is a film that truly deserves its place in cinematic history. #FrankGaimari #FranksFilmReview #ShirleyMaclaine #JackLemmon #BillyWilder #BestPicture franksfilmreview.com/2025/07/14/t...
positive · AI labelView post →Went to see The Apartment @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social and everyone applauded at the end - one of my favourite little things. Clapping an old movie because it’s brilliant and deserves it.
positive · AI labelView post →Like The Apartment, Carol is both a great Christmas movie and a great NYE movie
neutral · AI labelView post →"The Apartment," just rewatched this the other night for the first time in HD. Love some banter, real stakes in a comedy, and crisp black and white.
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight's film The Apartment (1960)
neutral · AI labelView post →Nominated 21 times, Billy Wilder won 6 Academy Awards. He is one of only 5 people to have won Academy Awards as producer, director and screenwriter for the same film, The Apartment, and was the first person to accomplish this.
neutral · AI labelView post →What is your favourite black & white movie? Five faves, off the top of my head: The Apartment (Wilder) Double Indemnity (Wilder) Brief Encounter (Lean) In a Lonely Place (Ray) Rififi (Dassin)
neutral · AI labelView post →Saw it on my own on DVD Netflix in 02 or '03. Met a young Bronx woman at the keg at an $100 Obama fundraiser in July '08. Invited her to see The Apartment at free Bryant Park movie series following week. Fav line: "Why do all you dames gotta live in the Bronx?" Married 16 yrs this week.
positive · AI labelView post →#Edwards1000SixtiesMovies 325/1000: IRMA LA DOUCE Billy Wilder once more reunites Lemmon and MacLaine for another great comedy-romance film after the grand success of The Apartment three years ago. Their chemistry is also strong in this movie, and Lou Jacobi is a total scene-stealer.
neutral · AI labelView post →As a movie gay, I’m genuinely embarrassed to admit that I just saw The Apartment for the first time the other day. But it’s like my new favorite movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Rounded off my 2024 cinema-going in style this weekend with screenings of THE APARTMENT (yesterday) and THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (today) at the BFI. I love it when everyone claps the film! #FilmSky 📽️🎬
positive · AI labelView post →Final cinema visit and movie viewing of 2025! Also turning off social media for the remainder of the year so...Happy New Year 🎊 #NowWatching 📽️ - The Apartment (1960) Dir. Billy Wilder
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the Apartment. What a movie, a drama comedy shot like a horror noir.
positive · AI labelView post →Now watching The Apartment [1960] for, somewhat shockingly, the first time ever. It’s been on my list for a long time—Jack Lemmon is always great. Have to say this film may give me a panic attack though, at least so far. Also, young Shirley MacLaine was cute as a damn button eh?
neutral · AI labelView post →Listen to Dan and Stuart talk about The Apartment, with our lovely friends over at FREE WITH ADS, who were nice enough to let us watch a GOOD movie for a change! maximumfun.org/episodes/fre...
neutral · AI labelView post →The other one I didn't sneak in is The Apartment, which I think is pretty close to a perfect movie, but is as much of a New Years movie as it is a Christmas movie, so it's still in play.
positive · AI labelView post →People like to say "Die Hard is the best Christmas Movie". Real ones know that the "The Apartment" is the best Christmas movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Merry Christmas filmsky. I'll be watching for the first time the Apartment directed by Billy Wilder as my Christmas film 😌 📽️ NW:
neutral · AI labelView post →FRANK'S FILM REVIEW: THE APARTMENT ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 The Apartment, written and directed by the brilliant Billy Wilder, is a film that truly deserves its place in cinematic history. #FrankGaimari #FranksFilmReview #ShirleyMaclaine #JackLemmon #BillyWilder #BestPicture franksfilmreview.com/2025/07/14/t...
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching THE APARTMENT (1960). Director: Billy Wilder. Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine. Funny, sad, & tender, Wilder's Oscar-winner defies easy categorization in its balance of cynicism & hope. 10 Oscar noms, 5 wins. #filmsky 📽
positive · AI labelView post →It's the first Friday of 2026 so I'm doing my first #LastFourWatched of the year. Silent Partner was the last movie I watched in 2025 and The Apartment was my first for the new year. Not a bad start. I'll be posting a review of Maldoror this month. Short version: it's good!
neutral · AI labelView post →what’s the greatest last line in a movie and why is it “shut up and deal” from The Apartment?
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched the movie The Apartment last night. Hadn’t seen it before! Hell of a picture. Nobody told me.
positive · AI labelView post →Watching THE APARTMENT and what is there to say about a perfect film so I'll just say: Shirley MacLaine
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching The Apartment (1960). Going in blind but I’ve yet to encounter a bad Billy Wilder film.
positive · AI labelView post →The greatest moments of Sunset B. are among the most sublime in movie history, but pound for pound, second by second, The Apartment may be Billy’s perfect film. And let’s not forget the blessing of Joan Shawlee!
positive · AI labelView post →And sure The Apartment goes on the honorable mention list too. Georgy Girl is not budging. I *love* that movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Jack Lemmon centenary festival starts today at Film Forum NYC — with free "keepsake keychains" at screenings of THE APARTMENT (1960) 🔑 filmforum.org/series/jack-... #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →As we’re counting down to a brand-new year, a great film to revisit: Billy Wilder’s THE APARTMENT (streaming on Prime). Here’s something I wrote on this excellent motion picture back in the day, for a site that does not exist anymore… Wish I had more opportunities to do this kind of writing… 🎊🎉🍾✨
positive · AI labelView post →It's from a movie called The Apartment, this was just practice. I'll use voice actors one day when i have money
neutral · AI labelView post →The Apartment is the perfect film and MacLaine and Lemmon are both irresistible. Perhaps the pinnacle of Wilder’s impossibly great filmography #TCMParty
positive · AI labelView post →My favorite film for each letter of the alphabet. A - The Apartment #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →
Posts are quoted from public profiles with links to the original. Want yours removed? Contact us.
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
