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Movie Overview
Cast
• Charlie Chaplin
• Virginia Cherrill
• Harry Myers
Director
• Charlie Chaplin
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
City Lights (1931)

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OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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4/5
"Widely considered Chaplin's best film."  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

5/5
"A paean to our finest impulses: perhaps Chaplin's finest effort."  All Movie Guide  Dan Jardine

A
"Delicately blends comedy and pathos."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

A+
"Perhaps the purest example of the cinema's potential for pathos."  Cinepinion  Henry Stewart

"It's an altogether wonderful gem, and one of the five best films the silent era has to offer."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

4/4
"City Lights is a great gift to all of us by a filmmaker at a latter-day peak of his genius"  Perihelion Journal  Jay Antani

A
"For anyone familiar with Chaplin's work, his trademark perfectionism is never more evident than in City Lights."  Old School Reviews  John A. Nesbit

8/10
"Chaplin always said it was The Gold Rush by which he wanted to be remembered, but a lot of folks think City Lights is his best work."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

A+
"The quintessential Chaplin film — both the most perfectly crafted and the most representative of all the different textures and tones for which he is remembered."  Decent Films Guide  Steven D. Greydanus
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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