City Lights (1931)
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Reviews Counted: 34 Fresh: 34 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 9.1/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 6 mins
Synopsis: This Charlie Chaplin masterpiece tells a bittersweet tale about a blind girl who is restored to sight with the help of that quintessential urban misfit, the Tramp, who falls in love with her. One of Chaplin's best. [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers, Hank Mann, Florence Lee
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Screenwriter: Charlie Chaplin
Producer: Charlie Chaplin
Composer: Alfred Newman
Screenwriter: Charlie Chaplin
Producer: Charlie Chaplin
Composer: Alfred Newman
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That final scene. Last week, CNN asked -- in "The Screening Room's Top 10 Romantic Moments" -- whether this was the most touching film moment of all time. Could be. Either way, if it doesn't move you, you're beyond human reach.
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03/04/08
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With its themes of selflessness and grace, as well as its graceful intertwining of comedy and pathos, this is a fine time for a revisit.
01/04/08
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12/19/07
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The British comic is still the consummate pantomimist, unquestionably one of the greatest the stage or screen has ever known.
06/27/07
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A beautiful example of Chaplin's ability to turn narrative fragments into emotional wholes. The two halves of the film are sentiment and slapstick. They are not blended but woven into a pattern as eccentric as it is sublime.
06/27/07
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City Lights is a great gift to all of us by a filmmaker at a latter-day peak of his genius
08/20/06
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The greatest and most touching finale of any film. Chaplin's masterpiece mixes comedy and sentiment. it makes you laugh, then brings a tear to your eye.
09/21/04
Four years after the sound era began, Charlie Chaplin made a meticulously mimed tragi-comedy that found him at his most sentimental, but no less a genius.
08/25/04
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.
07/09/04
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.
03/02/04
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