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Modern Times

1936

Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Chester Conklin ...

8.6

63,889

Comedy Chaplin is a factory worker in this hectic age - a minor cog in the grinding wheels of industry. His job -mechanically tightening bolts on a moving belt. The monotony of the work drives him beserk. Taken to hospital he soon recovers and is discharged, cautioned to avoid excitement. Caught in a street riot, he is mistaken for the leader and thrown into a patrol wagon. Charlie unconsciously thwarts an attempted jailbreak. As a reward he ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"Chaplin's sentimental politics and peerless comic invention dovetailed more perfectly in this film than in any other he made"	POS
United States	Abel Green Variety	"Whatever sociological meanings some will elect to read into “Modern Times,” there’s no denying that as a cinematic entertainment it’s wholesomely funny"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"It's the coldest of [Chaplin's] major features, though no less brilliant for it"	POS
United States	Frank S. Nugent The New York Times	"'Modern Times' has still the same old Charlie (...) Time has not changed his genius."	POS
United Kingdom	Derek Malcolm The Guardian	"Chaplin proves again (...) that he is the greatest artist of the silent screen (...) the most eloquent master of mime, and the simplest, most essential, and most touching of comedians."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"He hit upon an effective way to introduce sound without disturbing his comedy of pantomime"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"No one else in the history of art has shown us in greater detail what it means to be poor"	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"It's very funny and occasionally hilarious (...) An ungainly masterpiece"	POS
United States	J. Hoberman Village Voice	"'Modern Times' remains Chaplin's most sustained burlesque of authority"	POS

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