Fresh
What comes through most clearly in Limelight, however, is that Chaplin had come to terms with his life.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Limelight
The masterpiece of laughter and tears from the master of comedy!
1952 · 2h 17m · APPROVED
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Charlie Chaplin
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Limelight
Overview
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
Director and cast
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97%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Neither comedy nor tragedy altogether, it is a brilliant weaving of comic and tragic strands, eloquent, tearful and beguiling with supreme virtuosity.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
Few cinema artists have delved into their own lives and emotions with such ruthlessness and with such moving results.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
Charles Chaplin's 1952 film is overlong, visually flat, episodically constructed, and a masterpiece.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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