Welles waddles through the foreground with an eye on his own problems of patronage, while behind the camera he conjures a dark masterpiece, shot through with slapstick and sorrow.
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02/09/06
Chimes at Midnight (1967)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:10
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.3/10
Genre: Comedies
Starring: George Orson Welles, Arthur John Gielgud, Jeanne Moreau, Norman Rodway
Director: George Orson Welles
Reviews for Chimes at Midnight
1 - 11 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticA brooding masterpiece.
05/24/03
Top CriticPerhaps the only one of Welles' films that can really give Citizen Kane a run for its money as the filmmaker's finest work.
04/29/09
A personal viewpoint, it mixes the grotesque, bawdy, comic and heroic, and does have a melancholy under its carousing and battles.
06/18/08
Top CriticHere is a film to treasure.
04/06/07
Top CriticOrson Welles' brooding, sometimes brilliant art-house film dwells on the tragic side of one of Shakespeare's most famous comic characters.
08/29/06
Top CriticIt's a delightfully playful rip at history and the traditional way of filming Shakespeare.
11/04/05
Evidently Mr. Welles's reading of Falstaff ranges between a farcical concept of him and a mawkish, sentimental attitude.
05/09/05
Top CriticThe one Welles film that deserves to be called lovely.
10/08/01
Mythically beautiful.
10/08/01
A tour-de-force of Wellesian immensity.
09/26/01
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