The Artist (2011)

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It isn't arty or intellectual, though it is artful and ingenious, and it's the rare crowd-pleaser that never feels obvious or pandering.

February 15, 2013 Full Review

Rafer Guzman

Newsday

Top Critic

There is literally nothing wrong with it. I don't have a single nit to pick, minor flaw to point out or little bit that annoyed me. It is pure magic from the first frame to the last.

February 15, 2013 Full Review

Mark Rabinowitz

CNN.com

Top Critic

You can't fault it as smart entertainment, which eschews parody to make a sincere tribute that also serves as cogent current commentary.

April 17, 2012 Full Review | Comments (4)

Peter Howell

Toronto Star

Top Critic

The movie ever fully shakes off its air of skillfully executed experiment, but it's spirited and charming nonetheless.

March 7, 2012 Full Review

Jon Frosch

The Atlantic

Top Critic

'The Artist': Michel Hazanavicius's novelty film owes much to Jean Dujardin's irresistible smile

January 8, 2012 Full Review | Comments (17)

Joe Baltake

Passionate Moviegoer

Top Critic

For a movie that is so much about technique, it's surprising how affecting the story is.

December 28, 2011 Full Review | Comments (4)

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

Don't let the simplicity of the story fool you, 'The Artist' is a movie in which the pleasures lie entirely in the details.

May 25, 2013 Full Review

Al Alexander

The Patriot Ledger

Possibly one of the most joyously enjoyable films to screen in the Cannes competition -- especially for lovers of classic Hollywood cinema -- The Artist is a real pleasure.

February 15, 2013 Full Review

Mark Adams

Screen International

Had The Artist been made 75 years ago, it might have been brushed aside as melodrama. Today, its affection for a lost past strikes the right note of wistful nostalgia.

February 15, 2013 Full Review

Lawrence Toppman

Charlotte Observer

Writer/director Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist manages the trick of being both fearlessly loyal to an era of cinema that's long since passed and one of the few original motion pictures of its own time.

February 15, 2013 Full Review

Perry Seibert

TV Guide's Movie Guide

Its retro-retro take uniquely delivers the most crucial element of the moviegoing experience, the art of entertainment.

October 22, 2012 Full Review

Erick Weber

NECN

I could spend hours talking about how fantastic The Artist is; how sublime Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo are; how natural their movements and expressions are; how perfect the score is - oh, the score, so expressive and lively and jovial and magical.

September 28, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

Hazanavicius has perfectly captured the look and feel of the silent era with "The Artist."

September 18, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

The Artist is apparently Hazanavicius' dream project and it's truly inspiring to see a filmmaker take such a big risk in this day and age: especially when it pays off so big.

September 15, 2012 Full Review

Kristal Cooper

We Got This Covered

As an homage to silent films, it works. As a cinematic narrative of classic quality, it falls short.

September 15, 2012 Full Review

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

The Artist is superfluous, but charming through-and-through, painted with lively performances, staggering cinematography and a lovely spirit of nostalgia.

June 29, 2012 Full Review

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

Every now and then in an age of darkness and cynicism, a life affirming film is just what we need.

June 28, 2012 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

I'm not sure how much replay this film will get, but a first viewing is awfully satisfying-though it makes the audience work a little harder than they're accustomed.

June 26, 2012 Full Review

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

There appears to be one last goodbye, one last spotlight, for an industry that should never have left us in the first place.

June 21, 2012 Full Review

Rhett Bartlett

Dial M For Movies

The Academy Awards are the biggest annual party that Hollywood throws for itself, and The Artist is a movie that worships Hollywood. Looks like a done deal.

June 15, 2012 Full Review | Comments (19)

Jeffrey Overstreet

Filmwell

a witty, self-aware pastiche, full of clever audiovisual gags and cinephiliac allusions, with irresistible charm coursing through its nostalgic veins.

May 31, 2012 Full Review

Anton Bitel

MovieScope

Writer-director Michel Hazanavicius toys with despair only to gloss over it.

April 30, 2012 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

...it gives us a glimpse of what those silly people in black-and-white ... must have found so thrilling, engaging and ultimately heartening when they watched those quaint gray ghosts dancing on a screen they imagined was silver, so unrecoverably long ago.

April 29, 2012 Full Review

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

It's a screaming endorsement to the power of cinema... without saying a word.

April 29, 2012 Full Review

Blake Howard

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