It is a gay, impudent and sentimental pantomimic comedy in which even the anachronisms are often as becoming as Charlie Chaplin's cane.
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04/27/09
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
Sometimes sentimental yet highly comical, Chaplin's anti-industrialisation statement is wholly idealistic but its topical reflection on industrial paranoia still resonates today.
04/01/08
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 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 CriticIt'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
Certainly one of Chaplin's greatest...a true comedy classic.
11/09/06
Chaplin's political and philosophical naivety now seems as remarkable as his gift for pantomime.
06/24/06
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
Do you have to be reminded that Chaplin is a master of pantomime? Time has not changed his genius.
03/25/06
Top CriticNo review available.
03/13/06
A great movie, a funny movie, an important movie.
11/18/05
No review available.
07/04/05
No review available.
05/06/05
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
No review available.
02/07/05
A masterpiece.
11/22/04
Good physical comedy will always be funny, and Chaplin was a master.
10/22/04
genius
09/19/04
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