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The Shop Around the Corner

The Shop around the Corner

1940

Ernst Lubitsch

James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan, Felix Bressart ...

8.0

12,835

Romance. Comedy Alfred Kralik is the timid headclerk at a Budapest shop named Matuschek and Company. Each morning, the employees wait together for the arrival of their boss, Hugo Matuschek. Following an ad in the newspaper, Alfred has started to exchange letters with a lady friend. Against Alfred's wishes, Matuschek hires Klara Novak. The two quarrel constantly at work, not suspecting that Klara is Alfred's secret correspondent.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A sharp, elegant, unsentimental picture (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jaime N. Christley Slant	"We may try to make the old things new, but we had one Ernst Lubitsch, he’s long gone, and we aren’t getting another one (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Frank S. Nugent The New York Times	"Possibly the most surprising part of it is the adaptability of the players to Mr. Lubitsch's Continental milieu whose splendid evocation is one of the nicest things of the picture."	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Nostalgic and charming romance with special moments in the extra-narrative action (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Variety	"Generating humor and human interest from what might appear to be unimportant situations, it carries further to impress via the outstanding characterizations by Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart"	POS
United Kingdom	David Jenkins Time Out	"This is Lubitsch’s masterpiece, an immaculate conflation of his sprightly shooting style, expertly layered wisecracking and bracing realism (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"One of Ernst Lubitsch's finest and most enduring works, a romantic comedy of dazzling range (...) The romance proceeds through Lubitsch's brilliant deployment of point of view"	POS
United Kingdom	Tony Sloman Radio Times	"This wonderful romantic comedy drama (...) contains delightful performances by Margaret Sullavan (full of grace and warmth) and the young James Stewart (a portrait of perfection) (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"1940 Lubitsch romcom still a Christmas delight (...) James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan's love-hate romance is more eccentric than you might remember (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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