Sometimes sentimental yet highly comical, Chaplin's anti-industrialisation statement is wholly idealistic but its topical reflection on industrial paranoia still resonates today.
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04/01/08
Modern Times (1936)
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Reviews Counted: 47 Fresh: 47 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Synopsis: Charlie Chaplin bid farewell to silent comedy with this funny and poignant masterpiece. Here Chaplin stars as a factory worker fed-up with the job and his tyrannical boss (who keeps an eye on all his employees via a big-brother TV monitor). When he meets and falls in love with an orphaned street... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Chester Conklin, Tiny Sandford
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Producer: Charlie Chaplin
Screenwriter: Charlie Chaplin
Composer: Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Newman
Producer: Charlie Chaplin
Screenwriter: Charlie Chaplin
Composer: Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Newman
Reviews
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Chaplin's political and philosophical naivety now seems as remarkable as his gift for pantomime.
06/24/06
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One of the many remarkable things about Charlie Chaplin is that his films continue to hold up, to attract and delight audiences.
04/01/08
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The picture is grand fun and sound entertainment, though silent. It's the old Chaplin at his best, looking at his best -- young, pathetic and a very funny guy.
06/26/07
Top Critic
It's the coldest of [Chaplin's] major features, though no less brilliant for it.
06/26/07
The opening sequence in Chaplin's second Depression masterpiece, of the Tramp on the assembly line, is possibly his greatest slapstick encounter with the 20th century.
06/26/07
What we have is not just a story about a funny little man, but a morality fable, or cautionary tale, about people on the chuckholed road to the American Dream.
04/14/06
Do you have to be reminded that Chaplin is a master of pantomime? Time has not changed his genius.
03/25/06
Top Critic
An artist with vision swimming against a tide we know will eventually win.
04/19/05
Chaplin's last silent and the last time he uses his signature character of the Little Tramp.
03/04/05
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