The Lost World 1925

Mordaunt Hall, New York Times: As soon as the thrilling sequences are reached, where the explorers are seen in the supposed habitat of the living dinosauri, brontosauri, allosauri and other prehistoric monsters, there is no end of excitement. Read more

Don Druker, Chicago Reader: Harry Hoyt directed, combining incredible special effects (the monsters) and unbearable melodrama (the actors). Read more

Nick Bradshaw, Time Out: The film retains a certain naive wonderment, the story (Eurocentric as it may be) still holds up, and Wallace Beery is an inimitably hirsute Professor Challenger. Read more