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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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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
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