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 Criticgenius
09/19/04
Chaplin's political and philosophical naivety now seems as remarkable as his gift for pantomime.
06/24/06
Top CriticThe fact that the film is still playing in theaters today is a testament to its effectiveness.
01/16/04
No review available.
05/06/05
A great movie, a funny movie, an important movie.
11/18/05
Chaplin's sentimental politics and peerless comic invention dovetailed more perfectly in this film than in any other he made.
12/26/03
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
It's the coldest of [Chaplin's] major features, though no less brilliant for it.
06/26/07
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
Top CriticApesar do roteiro não ter muito foco, o filme é maravilhoso, traz alguns dos melhores momentos de Chaplin e uma trilha sonora inesquecível (a melhor que compôs em sua carreira).
07/25/03
No review available.
03/13/06
The film skewers the mechanization of America.
06/21/04
A worthy last hurrah for an immortal character, for a great body of work, and for a whole era of cinema.
05/07/02
A terrific satire of the industrial age.
07/09/04
Certainly one of Chaplin's greatest...a true comedy classic.
11/09/06
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
If the world is trying to suppress the little man, what better figure to rally against it than the ultimate little man, Chaplin's Little Tramp.
07/10/03
No review available.
07/04/05
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