Limelight 1952

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: Neither comedy nor tragedy altogether, it is a brilliant weaving of comic and tragic strands, eloquent, tearful and beguiling with supreme virtuosity. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Charles Chaplin's 1952 film is overlong, visually flat, episodically constructed, and a masterpiece. Read more

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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: What comes through most clearly in Limelight, however, is that Chaplin had come to terms with his life. Read more

TIME Magazine: Intended as a tragicomedy, if not a tearjerker, it is a two-thirds bore that comes to life in the last half-hour or so, when the old-master clown stops trying to be pathetic and reverts to his inimitable proper stuff. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Few cinema artists have delved into their own lives and emotions with such ruthlessness and with such moving results. Read more

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Variety Staff, Variety: Departing from most forms of Hollywood stereotype, the film has a flavor all its own in the sincere quality of the story anent the onetime great vaudemime and his rescue of a femme ballet student. Read more

Seth Colter Walls, Village Voice: Read more