Delicately blends comedy and pathos.
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03/24/04
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
Chaplin always said it was The Gold Rush by which he wanted to be remembered, but a lot of folks think City Lights is his best work.
03/02/04
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01/30/04
Chaplin's masterpiece -- and that's saying something.
05/12/03
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12/08/02
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11/01/02
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08/05/02
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
Chaplin has produced his finest comedy by cleverly blending pathos and comedy.
06/05/02
Top CriticA paean to our finest impulses: perhaps Chaplin's finest effort.
09/25/01
One of the cinema's greatest and most durable masterpieces.
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Top CriticNobody before or since has combined slapstick and poignancy to make such a perfectly timed, perfectly modulated entertainment.
01/01/00
It's an altogether wonderful gem, and one of the five best films the silent era has to offer.
01/01/00
For anyone familiar with Chaplin's work, his trademark perfectionism is never more evident than in City Lights.
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Contains some of Chaplin's great comic sequences.
01/01/00
Top CriticCity Lights (1931), subtitled "A Comedy Romance in Pantomime," is generally viewed as Charlie Chaplin's greatest film -
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