In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
A fully realized work of art whose influence on science fiction, set design and symbolism can scarcely be put into words.
– Joe Williams,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
23 Jul 2010
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I have just had a sensational night at the movies, and the picture was only 83 years old.
– David Thomson,
The New Republic,
27 Jul 2010
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One of the last examples of the imaginative -- but often monstrous -- grandeur of the Golden Period of the German film, Metropolis is a spectacular example of Expressionist design.
– Pauline Kael,
New Yorker,
25 Feb 2013
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Each frame of this classic is drop-dead stunning.
– Jami Bernard,
New York Daily News,
1 Apr 2014
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Occasionally it strikes one that [Lang] wanted to include too much and then that all one anticipates does not appear. But at the same time the various ideas have been spliced together quite adroitly.