The way the camera lingers on Brooks is voyeuristic; she, in turn, is oblivious to the fact we're there - the scene where she swings on the arm of muscle-head producer Rodrigo Quast is a classic example.

| Jun 16, 2020

Pandora's Box is a richly atmospheric work, and Pabst is equally at home in Berlin high society or in London's impoverished East End, where Lulu encounters Jack the Ripper.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 16, 2020

GW Pabst's extraordinary, erotic and tragic adaptation/conflation of two Wedekind plays, 'Pandora's Box', owes to the electrifying, photogenic and iconic presence of Louise Brooks

| Jun 16, 2020

There is something hypnotically unbridled about Brooks's performance.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 8, 2018

How did the silent-era actress Louise Brooks, 94 years ago, produce a performance of such arresting and unfussy modernity that it not only eclipsed her contemporaries but remains to this day unerringly relevant?

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 1, 2018

With Pandora's Box you forget that it's black and white. You forget that the internet has yet to happen... You forget that more than two hours have gone by. You forget because it's completely modern... 100 per cent gripping and involving.

| May 31, 2018

The film was adapted from a stage play, but possesses a strictly cinematic vocabulary that was heretofore unseen within the young medium.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 31, 2018

Louise Brooks, especially imported for the title role, does not pan out, due to no fault of hers. She is quite unsuited to the vamp type which was called for by the play from which the picture was made.

| Feb 27, 2013

If ever an actor was born to be seen in black-and-white it was Louise Brooks, who is as luminous as ever in this new restoration of GW Pabst's silent nightmare-melodrama.

| Feb 27, 2013

One of the classic films of the German silent era.

| Feb 27, 2013

Louise Brooks' legendary performance and Pabst's brilliantly acute direction both remain enthralling.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2008

Bold for its time, this restored, uncut version is a touch slow at some points, but its star glows throughout.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 30, 2006

Brooks overwhelms the lens with her magnetic eyes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 13, 2006

If you've never seen Brooks -- or Pandora's Box -- you've missed one of the most extraordinary personalities and films of the silent movie era.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 12, 2006

The movie remains one of the most insightful depictions of the elemental incongruity between man's nature and woman's.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 7, 2006

2006 is the centennial of actress Louise Brooks, and to honor it, her greatest film, Pandora's Box, is being released in a new 35-mm print in New York's Film Forum before being taken around the country.

| Original Score: A | Jun 15, 2006

There would never be another Lulu -- nor will there ever be.

| Jun 13, 2006

This is a stirring vision of the world gripped by a sinister moral vice--a nosedive into a carnal abyss of despair lined with visionary chiaroscuro sights and thorny mythological references.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 2, 2006

Miss Brooks is attractive and she moves her head and eyes at the proper moment, but whether she is endeavoring to express joy, woe, anger or satisfaction it is often difficult to decide.

| Mar 27, 2005

This synopsis could apply equally to a great or a laughable film. Brooks makes it a great one.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000