Shapes up as Chaplin's most startling, most invigorating movie: its icy temperature is positively bracing after the hot syrup of his earlier work.
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06/24/06
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:23
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 47 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Charlie Chaplin abandoned his "Little Tramp" persona for this dark comedy about a man driven to murder. Like so many others, bank clerk Monsieur Verdoux loses his job during the Great... [More]
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Martha Raye, Isobel Elsom, Marilyn Nash
Director: Charlie Chaplin
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Reviews for Monsieur Verdoux
Chaplin's most fully-conceived talkie.
08/31/03
Decidedly not Chaplin's best-loved movie, but an especially provokative one, that boasts both his typical humour and a darker, politicised streak.
05/24/03
As it is, Monsieur Verdoux is a curiosity with flashes of brilliance, but definitely not one of Chaplin's best.
05/13/08
Stunningly daring social satire.
03/24/05
A fine black comedy, not one of Chaplin's best, but still offers some illuminating moments.
05/14/04
An engrossingly wry and paradoxical film, screamingly funny in places, sentimental in others, sometimes slow and devoted to an unusually serious and sobering argument.
05/20/03
No review available.
02/18/08
This later entry from Charlie Chaplin is a bit talky, but it's also eerily amusing and a lot darker than we often associate with "The Little Tramp."
10/14/02
No review available.
02/08/04
A film of serene elegance and sharp teeth.
01/01/00
Top CriticGives one a greater sense of Chaplin's political breadth from his previous work.
03/02/07
No review available.
12/18/04
Perfection? Arguably not; Verdoux has clunky moments and some flat casting, but with an able assist from the great comedian Martha Raye, Chaplin's latter-day greatness is readily apparent.
07/11/08
Arguably the crown jewel in the Chaplin canon.
03/29/04
Monsieur Verdoux is the spirit of modernity taken to its darkest extreme. It may be immortal.
06/11/08
Probably Chaplin's best talkie -- a masterpiece of black comedy.
04/02/03
The intensely felt social criticism that audiences had seen growing in Modern Times and especially The Great Dictator is elevated to an astonishing level of sarcasm and subversive irony.
04/14/06
..one of those overreaching "important" films that insists a little much on moralizing.
10/30/02
In its uncanny depiction of a weakling whose crimes pale against those of the war-mad society around him, it’s a near masterpiece.
06/09/08
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