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.
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08/28/04
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
No review available.
07/27/04
A terrific satire of the industrial age.
07/09/04
The film skewers the mechanization of America.
06/21/04
The mechanical feeding sequence in Modern Times is probably the funniest routine in cinema history.
05/06/04
Chaplin's satiric dissection of the economy circa 1936 looks downright prescient.
03/26/04
The film's structure flew in the face of accepted wisdom.
03/16/04
Top CriticThe fact that the film is still playing in theaters today is a testament to its effectiveness.
01/16/04
The great comedian's finest comedies on the big screen.
12/26/03
Modern Times is an ungainly masterpiece, but Chaplin's ungainliness is something one can grow fond of.
12/26/03
Chaplin's sentimental politics and peerless comic invention dovetailed more perfectly in this film than in any other he made.
12/26/03
Remains Chaplin's most sustained burlesque of authority.
12/23/03
No review available.
09/20/03
No review available.
09/05/03
Brilliant Chapling satire with a bit of romance. His last non-talkie.
08/27/03
No review available.
08/27/03
Apesar 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
Charlie 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
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
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
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