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Limelight

1952

Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Sydney Chaplin ...

8.2

14,049

Drama. Romance An old clown (Charles Chaplin), after preventing the suicide of a young dancer (Claire Bloom), takes care of her and tries to teach her everything he knows about theater so she can succeed.

	Author	Review
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"It is a brilliant weaving of comic and tragic strands, eloquent, tearful and beguiling with supreme virtuosity"	POS
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"There are sublime, deeply affecting moments and for those who think Chaplin one of the key figures of 20th-century popular culture, it is a crucial movie."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"What comes through most clearly in 'Limelight', however, is that Chaplin had come to terms with his life. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United Kingdom	Geoff Brown Time Out	"Few cinema artists have delved into their own lives and emotions with such ruthlessness and with such moving result."	POS
United States	Variety	"Departing from most forms of Hollywood stereotype, the film has a flavor all its own in the sincere quality of the story anent the onetime great vaudemime and his rescue of a femme ballet student."	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"It is a brilliant weaving of comic and tragic strands, eloquent, tearful and beguiling with supreme virtuosity."	POS
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"[It] has has more pathos than laughs"	NEU
United States	Jordan Cronk Slant	"If Chaplin's formal fluidity and narrative economy facilitate a satisfying dramatic arc, it's through the acutely felt sense of reflexivity that the film approaches the sublime (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"His bitter philosophical vein took over (...) It reveals him to be endowed with an ironic loftiness of character that was out of synch with the new tastes of the times."	NEG

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