Nominated for 4 Oscars. 5 wins & 8 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
This one is neither crude clowning nor crude prejudice, but a literate and knowingly directed satire which lands many a shrewd crack about phony Five Year Plans, collective farms, Communist jargon and pseudo-scientific gab.
– Whittaker Chambers,
TIME Magazine,
15 Jan 2013
fresh:
Ninotchka is delicate flirtation and political satire made into a perfect whole, and a reminder of skills that studio writers have largely lost.
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out New York,
27 Dec 2012
fresh:
Selection of Ernst Lubitsch to pilot Garbo in her first light performance in pictures proves a bull's-eye.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
3 Feb 2009
fresh:
The satire may be mostly a matter of easy contrasts, but the lovers inhabit a world of elegance and poise that is uniquely and movingly Lubitsch's.