Modern Times (1936)

It is a gay, impudent and sentimental pantomimic comedy in which even the anachronisms are often as becoming as Charlie Chaplin's cane.

Sometimes sentimental yet highly comical, Chaplin's anti-industrialisation statement is wholly idealistic but its topical reflection on industrial paranoia still resonates today.

One of the many remarkable things about Charlie Chaplin is that his films continue to hold up, to attract and delight audiences.

The picture is grand fun and sound entertainment, though silent. It's the old Chaplin at his best, looking at his best -- young, pathetic and a very funny guy.

It's the coldest of [Chaplin's] major features, though no less brilliant for it.

The opening sequence in Chaplin's second Depression masterpiece, of the Tramp on the assembly line, is possibly his greatest slapstick encounter with the 20th century.

Do you have to be reminded that Chaplin is a master of pantomime? Time has not changed his genius.