This is without doubt one of the funniest, most original screen comedies ever made, and from the greatest year in Hollywood's history.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 22, 2024

The picture itself might have been a very amusing satire at the expense of the Russians if it had been made with any thing lighter than a loaded baseball bat.

| Oct 30, 2023

Ninotchka continues to enchant viewers all over the world and it hasn’t lost any of its charm in the past 82 years.

| Feb 1, 2023

Has there ever been a more charming, sexy, infectious laugh put to film than the one Greta Garbo delivers in Ninotchka?

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 23, 2022

The finale is a welcome surprise (of sorts), returning to the dependable romance of lighthearted fantasy that had disappeared with the austerity and poverty of Russia.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 2, 2022

Following the fashion of so many of Hollywood's more serious actresses who are turning to lighter roles, Greta Garbo, in her newest picture, brings a smile to her face and a rare buoyancy to her step.

| Jun 23, 2021

It's Ernst Lubitsch's world--we're just living in it.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 22, 2020

This is the cinema's lightest and sharpest appraisal of communism.

| Nov 27, 2018

This is not merely a Garbo film, it is a Lubitsch film, and the result is enchanting.

| May 8, 2018

The romantic roundelay, linking fine emotions with fine lingerie, is shadowed by the brutality of Soviet tyranny.

| May 9, 2016

The prospect of seeing the usually oh-so-serious Greta Garbo nyukking it up proved irresistible to the moviegoing public of 1939.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 11, 2015

This column has generally no quarrel with scene-to-scene entertainment, serving a legitimate demand for relaxation, though it adds up to nothing. But the entertaining gags of this picture add up to something, and it is not pleasant.

| Jan 18, 2013

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.

| Jan 15, 2013

Ninotchka is delicate flirtation and political satire made into a perfect whole, and a reminder of skills that studio writers have largely lost.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 27, 2012

Iridescent and teaming with vitality, Garbo glows in her penultimate film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2012

Ninotchka stands as one of the finest films Lubitsch made. It was reportedly one of the director's own favorites among his films, and it's easy to see why.

| Mar 1, 2011

Great, but kids may need historical context.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 26, 2010

The masterpiece among Lubitsch's later films.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 23, 2009

It's comedy is rooted in classic sentimentality, but the dialog is often hammer and sickle sharp.

| Feb 11, 2009

It is a film that blends pratfalls and a sophisticated comedy of manners.

| Feb 3, 2009