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 CriticChaplin has produced his finest comedy by cleverly blending pathos and comedy.
06/05/02
Top CriticOne of the cinema's greatest and most durable masterpieces.
01/01/00
Top CriticIs this film still funny after 76 years? I think and hope it is.
12/19/07
Nobody before or since has combined slapstick and poignancy to make such a perfectly timed, perfectly modulated entertainment.
01/01/00
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
Widely considered Chaplin's best film.
04/17/04
No review available.
11/01/02
Perfect.
12/02/07
City Lights, when watched today, has the feel of an old, personal story being passed down another generation. The ending is, to say the least, sublime.
07/21/02
A paean to our finest impulses: perhaps Chaplin's finest effort.
09/25/01
No review available.
01/30/04
A 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
Only someone with slow-drying cement in their veins wouldn’t be moved.
01/18/08
Delicately blends comedy and pathos.
03/24/04
No review available.
07/14/05
It's an altogether wonderful gem, and one of the five best films the silent era has to offer.
01/01/00
City Lights is a great gift to all of us by a filmmaker at a latter-day peak of his genius
08/20/06
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