Monsieur Verdoux is easily one of the most underrated Chaplin films out there.

| Original Score: A | Aug 28, 2022

Chaplin's Bluebeard story is ours to revel in for the sheer brilliance of performance, the cinematic excellence of his direction and the simplicity that shines in all its latter-day naivete.

| Aug 15, 2022

Monsieur Verdoux is undoubtedly the most important of Chaplin's works. When we see it, we are seeing the first evolution of a step which could well be, by the same token, the final step. Monsieur Verdoux casts a new light on Chaplin's world.

| Dec 9, 2021

The beauty of this characterization is that it shows so effectively what an awful mess man gets into by his genius for rationalizing any act as long as it suits his immediate gain.

| Sep 14, 2021

Henri Verdoux showcased Chaplin's crisp, flamboyant diction by playing against type. Never before had he played a deceitfully murderous man, slyly articulate and devilishly selfish in his conquest for corpses.

| Nov 16, 2020

It's quite a conundrum: a Chaplin comedy-drama that only resembles one after halfway into the plot.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 13, 2020

Its merit, to be crisp about it, is uneven. It has intervals that are highly entertaining. These occur when Chaplin reverts to type, the talented entertainer. It has other passages when it is nothing more than a pious, profound bore.

| Jun 8, 2020

Monsieur Verdoux is an acerbic and intelligent movie that remains unique for the public of our era. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 29, 2019

The film's cynical vision is as lucid as it is unrelenting.

| Original Score: 10/10 | May 22, 2013

a pitch-black, arguably bitter comedy that wasn't so much a departure for Chaplin (he had, after all, lampooned Hitler in his previous film) as it was an opportunity to fully engage with his darker comedic impulses

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 10, 2013

Simultaneously ethical and unethical, the snappily dressed Verdoux exists as an extraordinary challenge to capitalism's status quo during its seismic swing toward fascism.

| Original Score: A+ | Mar 31, 2013

Monsieur Verdoux can boast a screenplay with a highly unusual moral complexity and a deeply philosophical bent...Yes, Verdoux is a film that name-drops Schopenhauer, but it's also damn funny... [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 24, 2013

Thoungh misunderstood and a commercial flop in 1947, Chaplin's murderous satire has many merits, including Oscar nomination for Original Script.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 2, 2013

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 17, 2011

It's not often you find Charlie Chaplin in the rare role of a villain, but he does nice work in this small tale of lies and murder.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 16, 2011

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 13, 2009

Perfection? Arguably not; Verdoux has clunky moments and some flat casting, but with an able assist from the great comedian Martha Raye, Chaplin's latter-day greatness is readily apparent.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 11, 2008

In its uncanny depiction of a weakling whose crimes pale against those of the war-mad society around him, it's a near masterpiece.

| Jun 9, 2008

Chaplin generates little sympathy. His broad-mannered antics, as a many-aliased fop on the make for impressionable matrons.

| May 13, 2008

As it is, Monsieur Verdoux is a curiosity with flashes of brilliance, but definitely not one of Chaplin's best.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 13, 2008