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:8.9/10
Consensus: A slapstick skewering of industrialized America, Modern Times is as politically incisive as it is laugh-out-loud hilarious.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Comedies
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... [More]
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Chester Conklin
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Reviews for Modern Times
Top CriticThe film's structure flew in the face of accepted wisdom.
03/16/04
Top CriticChaplin's political and philosophical naivety now seems as remarkable as his gift for pantomime.
06/24/06
Top Criticgenius
09/19/04
The picture is a two-hour almost continuous gale of laughter with sidesplitting gags generously distributed throughout the five major sequences and the several minor ones.
05/21/03
Top CriticIt is a gay, impudent and sentimental pantomimic comedy in which even the anachronisms are often as becoming as Charlie Chaplin's cane.
04/27/09
Top CriticChaplin's sentimental but keenly satirical swipe at the mechanization of everyday life is by consensus the last of the great silent features.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe mechanical feeding sequence in Modern Times is probably the funniest routine in cinema history.
05/06/04
No review available.
07/27/04
No review available.
09/05/03
A great movie, a funny movie, an important movie.
11/18/05
No review available.
03/13/06
It's the coldest of [Chaplin's] major features, though no less brilliant for it.
06/26/07
The great comedian's finest comedies on the big screen.
12/26/03
Chaplin's last silent and the last time he uses his signature character of the Little Tramp.
03/04/05
No review available.
07/04/05
Good physical comedy will always be funny, and Chaplin was a master.
10/22/04
Do you have to be reminded that Chaplin is a master of pantomime? Time has not changed his genius.
03/25/06
Top CriticCharlie Chaplin is the Orson Welles of comedy. One of his funniest silent films is Modern Times, a brilliant spoof on technology that's more stinging today than back in its 1936 release year.
07/14/03
Remains Chaplin's most sustained burlesque of authority.
12/23/03
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