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Modern Times (1936)

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Reviews Counted:32

Fresh:17

Rotten:15

Average Rating:2.6/10

Consensus: A slapstick skewering of industrialized America, Modern Times is as politically incisive as it is laugh-out-loud hilarious.

Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Charlie Chaplin bid farewell to silent comedy with this funny and poignant masterpiece. Here Chaplin stars as a factory worker fed-up with the job and his tyrannical boss (who keeps an eye on all... Charlie Chaplin bid farewell to silent comedy with this funny and poignant masterpiece. Here Chaplin stars as a factory worker fed-up with the job and his tyrannical boss (who keeps an eye on all his employees via a big-brother TV monitor). When he meets and falls in love with an orphaned street waif, the two dream of a nice suburban existence...but the cops are never far behind, chasing the vagabond couple. [More]

Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Chester Conklin

Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Chester Conklin, Tiny Sandford, Hank Mann, Stanley Blystone, Allan Garcia

Director: Charlie Chaplin

Director: Charlie Chaplin
Producer: Charlie Chaplin
Screenwriter: Charlie Chaplin
Composer: Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Newman

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For the [MK2/Warner] restoration, experts at Cineteca Bologna assembled the best footage from a variety of sources into a new print. MK2's technicians painstakingly touched up all 126,000 frames individually...

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Almar Haflidason
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Modern Times has been beautifully restored and outfitted with a wealth of extras.

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...many of the movie's satiric jabs at big business, industrialization, the working class, and the impersonalization of contemporary society are still relevant today.

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Glenn Martin Erickson
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For Chaplin fans, this gift set is a treasure. For those who have never seen Chaplin, the discs serve as an entertaining introduction to a comedy colossus.

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