Incredibly powerful and heartbreaking ending.
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07/22/06
City Lights (1931)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:36
Rotten:0
Average Rating:9/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 6 mins
Genre: Comedies
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... [More]
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers, Hank Mann
Director: Charlie Chaplin
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Reviews for City Lights
City Lights is a great gift to all of us by a filmmaker at a latter-day peak of his genius
08/20/06
It's an altogether wonderful gem, and one of the five best films the silent era has to offer.
01/01/00
Top CriticThat 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.
03/04/08
Top CriticFour 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
City Lights (1931), subtitled "A Comedy Romance in Pantomime," is generally viewed as Charlie Chaplin's greatest film -
01/01/00
Contains some of Chaplin's great comic sequences.
01/01/00
Top CriticOnly someone with slow-drying cement in their veins wouldn’t be moved.
01/18/08
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
A film worked out with admirable artistry.
01/28/06
Top CriticA paean to our finest impulses: perhaps Chaplin's finest effort.
09/25/01
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
Top CriticNobody before or since has combined slapstick and poignancy to make such a perfectly timed, perfectly modulated entertainment.
01/01/00
For anyone familiar with Chaplin's work, his trademark perfectionism is never more evident than in City Lights.
01/01/00
Widely considered Chaplin's best film.
04/17/04
Both funny and touching, this showcases Chaplin at his best.
08/31/03
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
Top CriticChaplin 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
Is this film still funny after 76 years? I think and hope it is.
12/19/07
Top CriticDelicately blends comedy and pathos.
03/24/04
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