Lloyd is generally considered the most prosaic of the era’s comedic “big three,” lacking Chaplin’s poetry and Keaton’s deadpan genius. But his movies were, and are, great mainstream entertainment...

| Nov 30, 2023

There are some brilliant slapstick sequences and there’s also great character work which emphasizes that, for truly skilled actors, spoken dialogue is far from a necessity.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 21, 2023

To see a film from a hundred years ago that can still make your palms sweat is especially impressive. Safety Last!, Harold Lloyd’s most famous picture, manages to do so while also delivering delightful comedy throughout.

| Jul 29, 2023

Safety Last! builds towards a justifiably iconic climax...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 27, 2023

... apart from the long shots featuring a stuntman, that’s Lloyd himself scrambling up the bricks and cornices, thanks to a mix of nervy stuntsmanship and ingenious location shooting....

| Apr 14, 2023

It goes like lightning and seems supercharged by creativity and by the comedy of physical logic particular to silent films.

| Original Score: A | Apr 5, 2023

A distinctively modern comedy in 1923; 100 years on it remains so. More than ever, we’re all hanging from that clock, trying not to panic as a disinterested, preoccupied world scurries below us, indifferent to our passions and pain.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 1, 2023

In Safety Last the inimitable Harold Lloyd adds another brilliant comedy success to his long list of mirthful screen triumphs.

| Mar 16, 2023

The large and growing number of Harold Lloyd fans will enjoy Safety Last. It is full of the tricks which have earned him his friends, and in some scenes he is probably funnier than in any previous picture.

| Feb 22, 2023

The technique of this production... [is] truly marvelous. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 22, 2023

[Safety Last] lacks the usual spontaneity and buoyancy of a Harold Lloyd comedy. Nevertheless, it is marvellously ingenious. It is brimming with tricks that are calculated to tickle the ribs and chill the spine at one and the same instant.

| Feb 22, 2023

Why [people] should be supposed to find entertainment and not torture in seeing another human on the point of falling to certain death is a mystery to what intelligence I possess. However, there are six reels of it, and it proved vastly entertaining.

| Feb 22, 2023

I don't believe I'm mistaken in classifying it as excellent from all points of view. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 22, 2023

As for Lloyd, we always knew he was funny, but we never realized how funny until this one. It isn't only that he does funny stunts; his comedy method Itself is perfect of its own original kind.

| Feb 22, 2023

It was hours after leaving the theater before we had recovered from the exhaustion occasioned by the thrills and hysterical laughter.

| Feb 22, 2023

This climbing stunt is the last word in nervous farce. In all his comedy predecessors along this line, Lloyd has never touched the smashing effectiveness of Safety Last.

| Feb 22, 2023

Any human being that can sit through Harold Lloyd's latest and not find in it a barrel of good, old fashioned laughs, and real enjoyment -- well that person might just as well be like old Tut-Ankh-Amen-well embalmed.

| Feb 22, 2023

It is another testimonial that one touch of Harold makes the whole world grin, and in addition to grinning it will make the fans laugh, chuckle and chortle with glee.

| Feb 22, 2023

As photocomic entertainment it is in a class by itself. We have rarely heard people laugh and shriek in a theatre as they did yesterday.

| Feb 22, 2023

The excitement produced by Lloyd as a human fly kept the packed house on the edges of the seats with eager enthusiasm as they followed him up the skyscraper.

| Feb 22, 2023