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.
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
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It is a gay, impudent and sentimental pantomimic comedy in which even the anachronisms are often as becoming as Charlie Chaplin's cane. Full Review |
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Sometimes sentimental yet highly comical, Chaplin's anti-industrialisation statement is wholly idealistic but its topical reflection on industrial paranoia still resonates today. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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It's the coldest of [Chaplin's] major features, though no less brilliant for it. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Certainly one of Chaplin's greatest...a true comedy classic.
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Chaplin's political and philosophical naivety now seems as remarkable as his gift for pantomime. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Do you have to be reminded that Chaplin is a master of pantomime? Time has not changed his genius. Full Review |
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A great movie, a funny movie, an important movie. Full Review |
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3/4 |
An artist with vision swimming against a tide we know will eventually win. Full Review |
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B+ |
Chaplin's last silent and the last time he uses his signature character of the Little Tramp. Full Review |
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5/5 |
A masterpiece.
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Good physical comedy will always be funny, and Chaplin was a master. Full Review |
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5/5 |
genius
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