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1936
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5.0
Modern Times (1936), the first of seven Chaplin programs, was SRO all weekend, and when I saw it on Sunday afternoon, the audience was just about besi ..
Rogerebert
5.0
Children will adore the slapstick in this movie, especially the scenes where Chaplin tries out the feeding machine and when he experiments with roller ..
Common Sense Media
4.5
The picture is grand fun and sound entertainment, though silent. Its the old Chaplin at his best, looking at his best young, pathetic and a very funny ..
Variety
4.5
Chaplins political and philosophical naivety now seems as remarkable as his gift for pantomime.
Time Out
5.0
Modern Times is an ungainly masterpiece, but Chaplins ungainliness is something one can grow fond of.
San Francisco Chronicle
5.0
Dogman Theres nowhere bleaker than the seaside when the fun stops and it looks a .. Apostle With The Raid, Welsh writer director Gareth Evans took the ..
3.8
Chaplins last silent and the last time he uses his signature character of the Little Tramp.
Sover
5.0
Chaplins sentimental but keenly satirical swipe at the mechanization of everyday life is by consensus the last of the great silent features.
Tv Guide
5.0
But Chaplin went one further: he did it with consummate artistry and poetry.
Combust Ible Celluloid
5.0
Chaplins sentimental politics and peerless comic invention dovetailed more perfectly in this film than in any other he made.
Boston
2.0
by Playing a factory worker struggling to survive in an unidentified industrialized society, Charlie Chaplin created in Modern Times one of the most p ..
Emanuellevy
5.0
Instead, it is one of Chaplins masterpieces, a film of timeless human comedy and social observation that is both firmly rooted in its time and place, ..
Q Network
5.0
Modern Times (Charles Chaplin) is the first picture made by its star since City Lights (1931) and his third in seven years.
Time
5.0
This certified classic gets its finest treatment from the Criterion Collection: I cant wait for more to roll down the assembly line.
Groucho Reviews
3.8
Look, the real wonder of WW84 is that this maybe isnt the worst thing about it.
Film Freak Central
5.0
Indeed, the story is little more than a visual series of expertly timed, masterfully choreographed comedic skits.
5.0
The hands of the cinema clock were set back five years last night when a funny little man with a microscopic mustache, a battered derby hat, turned up ..
Ny Times
5.0
Its hilarious and incisive, meaning you wont find a more approachable work of art.
Larsen On Film
5.0
Chaplins satiric dissection of the economy circa 1936 looks downright prescient.
Sltrib
3.0
Chaplins last silent and the last time he uses his signature character of the Little Tramp.
Dennis Schwartz Reviews
3.0
But the most important reason for the films ongoing relevance is its contemporary themes and forward looking perspective.
Decent Films
4.5
The opening sequence in Chaplins second Depression masterpiece, of the Tramp on the assembly line, is possibly his greatest slapstick encounter with t ..
Chicago Reader
4.5
Its the coldest of major features, though no less brilliant for it.
Chicago Reader
4.5
Sometimes sentimental yet highly comical, Chaplins anti industrialisation statement is wholly idealistic but its topical reflection on industrial para ..
Film4
4.0
If the world is trying to suppress the little man, what better figure to rally against it than the ultimate little man, Chaplins Little Tramp.
Movie Metropolis
4.5
It treats modernization as a force to be reckoned with, turning human beings into nameless cattle herded into mindless work.
Mac Guff
4.5
I reaffirm my position that its one of the best films in the history of cinema.
4.0
What elevates Modern Times above even its cleverness is its sense of spectacle. Its as entertaining as it is socially and politically resonant.
Patrick Nabarro
3.0
The movie finds the comedy in the dashing of hopes, though it has both the verve to be funny for funnys sake when it feels the urge, and the fortitude ..
Nicks Flick Picks
5.0
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The Nation
4.5
It will give you some hilarious examples of Chaplins physical comedy and superb grace.
Gost Dog
4.5
A leisurely, rather sketchy drama from Britain, beautifully acted and full of convincing atmosphere.
Maclean's Magazine
4.4
The fact that the film is still playing in theaters today is a testament to its effectiveness.
Arizona Daily Star
4.5
The doctor offers some last minute advice: Take it easy and avoid excitement.
Film Site
3.5
I was sorry when I learned that Michaels, the well known childrens hair cutting salon at Madison Avenue and 90th Street, went out of business recently ..
Ny Observer
5.0
nearly perfect comedy continues to hold up over 60 years after its creation
Old School Reviews
5.0
Modern Times marks when this need, and its shortcomings, began to drive his filmmaking.As comedy Modern Times is exquisite.
Dvd Journal
5.0
Businesses felt the ground shake when the Court Avenue water main burst Businesses on Fourth Street were closed, along with the street, Saturday after ..
Dm Register
4.5
Chaplin finally relates his character to the actual world, and rises from funny man to supreme satirist.
Esquire Magazine
5.0
Good physical comedy will always be funny, and Chaplin was a master.
Seattle Times
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