What comes through most clearly in Limelight, however, is that Chaplin had come to terms with his life.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 8, 2011

Intended as a tragicomedy, if not a tearjerker, it is a two-thirds bore that comes to life in the last half-hour or so, when the old-master clown stops trying to be pathetic and reverts to his inimitable proper stuff.

| Aug 8, 2011

Elements of self parody from the master of slapstick leave you yearning for the early work that made his name. But it's worth a watch to see Chaplin and Keaton in one of few on-screen appearances together.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 9, 2011

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.

| Mar 26, 2009

Neither comedy nor tragedy altogether, it is a brilliant weaving of comic and tragic strands, eloquent, tearful and beguiling with supreme virtuosity.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 25, 2006

Few cinema artists have delved into their own lives and emotions with such ruthlessness and with such moving results.

| Feb 9, 2006

Charles Chaplin's 1952 film is overlong, visually flat, episodically constructed, and a masterpiece.

| Jan 1, 2000