Chaplin's political and philosophical naivety now seems as remarkable as his gift for pantomime.
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06/24/06
Modern Times (1936)
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Reviews Counted:47
Fresh:47
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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.
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
The film skewers the mechanization of America.
06/21/04
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
A terrific satire of the industrial age.
07/09/04
Chaplin's sentimental politics and peerless comic invention dovetailed more perfectly in this film than in any other he made.
12/26/03
An artist with vision swimming against a tide we know will eventually win.
04/19/05
Finds the comedy in the dashing of hopes, though it has both the verve to be funny for funny’s sake when it feels the urge and the fortitude not to tidy up every dark stroke.
08/28/04
In Modern Times (1936), the still-silent Tramp, with his familiar small Derby hat, large boots, baggy pants, tight jacket and cane makes his last appearance.
01/01/00
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 CriticThe great comedian's finest comedies on the big screen.
12/26/03
A worthy last hurrah for an immortal character, for a great body of work, and for a whole era of cinema.
05/07/02
Remains Chaplin's most sustained burlesque of authority.
12/23/03
It's the coldest of [Chaplin's] major features, though no less brilliant for it.
06/26/07
Modern Times is an ungainly masterpiece, but Chaplin's ungainliness is something one can grow fond of.
12/26/03
Good physical comedy will always be funny, and Chaplin was a master.
10/22/04
Chaplin's satiric dissection of the economy circa 1936 looks downright prescient.
03/26/04
Children will adore the slapstick in this movie.
04/18/02
nearly perfect comedy continues to hold up over 60 years after its creation
01/01/00
Do you have to be reminded that Chaplin is a master of pantomime? Time has not changed his genius.
03/25/06
Top CriticThe film's structure flew in the face of accepted wisdom.
03/16/04
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