The Docks of New York 1928

Glenn Collins, New York Times: It fulfills their requirements, somewhat obscure to this reviewer, of rhythm, plasticity and unity. In simpler and more popular terms, it seems to be exceptionally good motion picture entertainment. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Sternberg suppresses direct emotional appeal to concentrate on something infinitely fine: a series of minute, discrete moral discoveries and philosophical realignments among his characters. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: It's a corking program picture, thanks to George Bancroft, a good story and Julian Johnson's titles. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: In a way lost to contemporary social-work movies, von Sternberg's unsentimental poetic realism ennobles his lower-class protagonists through beauty. Classic. Read more