An enduring masterpiece.
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04/27/09
City Lights (1931)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:36
Rotten:0
Average Rating:9/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 6 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: This Charlie Chaplin masterpiece tells a bittersweet tale about a blind girl who is restored to sight with the help of that quintessential urban misfit, the Tramp, who falls in love with her. One... [More]
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers, Hank Mann
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Reviews for City Lights
Top CriticPlenty of great moments, and the occasional comic use of sound.
06/24/06
Top CriticBoth funny and touching, this showcases Chaplin at his best.
08/31/03
Top CriticThat final scene. Last week, CNN asked -- in "The Screening Room's Top 10 Romantic Moments" -- whether this was the most touching film moment of all time. Could be. Either way, if it doesn't move you, you're beyond human reach.
03/04/08
Only someone with slow-drying cement in their veins wouldn’t be moved.
01/18/08
With its themes of selflessness and grace, as well as its graceful intertwining of comedy and pathos, this is a fine time for a revisit.
01/04/08
Is this film still funny after 76 years? I think and hope it is.
12/19/07
Perfect.
12/02/07
The British comic is still the consummate pantomimist, unquestionably one of the greatest the stage or screen has ever known.
06/27/07
Top CriticA beautiful example of Chaplin's ability to turn narrative fragments into emotional wholes. The two halves of the film are sentiment and slapstick. They are not blended but woven into a pattern as eccentric as it is sublime.
06/27/07
City Lights is a great gift to all of us by a filmmaker at a latter-day peak of his genius
08/20/06
Incredibly powerful and heartbreaking ending.
07/22/06
Absolutely delightful, hilarious, heart breaking Chaplin classic.
06/16/06
A film worked out with admirable artistry.
01/28/06
Top CriticNo review available.
07/14/05
No review available.
11/19/04
The greatest and most touching finale of any film. Chaplin's masterpiece mixes comedy and sentiment. it makes you laugh, then brings a tear to your eye.
09/21/04
Four years after the sound era began, Charlie Chaplin made a meticulously mimed tragi-comedy that found him at his most sentimental, but no less a genius.
08/25/04
The quintessential Chaplin film — both the most perfectly crafted and the most representative of all the different textures and tones for which he is remembered.
07/09/04
Widely considered Chaplin's best film.
04/17/04
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