Sherlock Jr. 1924

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A master of movement and stillness, Keaton developed a comedy style that was as intellectual as it was physical, and this small gem shows us why he's as purely American a film genius as the motion pictures have produced. Read more

TIME Magazine: The unexpected, fantastic dream situations lend themselves to some remarkable trick effects, including one in which Buster walks right out of an audience and into a picture on the screen. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: This Buster Keaton feature length comedy is about as unfunny as a hospital operating room. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Keaton's appreciation of the formal paradoxes of the medium is astounding; his observations on the relationship between film and the subconscious are groundbreaking and profound. And it's a laugh riot, too. Read more

Mordaunt Hall, New York Times: There is an extremely good comedy which will give you plenty of amusement, so long as you permit Mr. Keaton to glide into his work with his usual deliberation. Read more

Tom Milne, Time Out: Keaton's third feature under his own steam is an incredible technical accomplishment, but also an almost Pirandellian exploration of the nature of cinematic reality. Read more