Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages 1916

New York Times: The verdict Intolerance renders in the controversy concerning its maker is that he is a real wizard of lens and screen. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: One of the great breakthroughs -- the Ulysses of the cinema -- and a powerful, moving experience in its own right. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Griffith's trademark closeups lend a quivering lip or a trembling hand the tragic grandeur of historical cataclysm. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Intolerance reflects much credit to the wizard director, for it required no small amount of genuine art to consistently blend actors, horses, monkeys, geese, doves, acrobats and ballets into a composite presentation of a film classic. Read more

Aaron Cutler, Village Voice: Intolerance looks both backward and forward. The strong exploit the weak, it cries, and all governments throughout history are evil. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: All at once the Moloch of cineastical good intentions, the first great juggernaut of auteur ambition, and the largest experimental film ever made. Read more