...one of the greatest and most influential romantic comedies ever made...

| Feb 9, 2023

Whether you are shopping for a movie or not, we urge you to drop in and take a look at The Shop Around the Corner.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 8, 2022

Shop Around the Corner demonstrates how feather-weight material can be deftly handled for the best effects. It is excellently done.

| Nov 8, 2022

The Sullavan touch and the Stewart touch mean quite as much to The Shop Around the Corner as the "Lubitsch touch."

| Nov 8, 2022

A pretty kettle of bubbling brew it makes under Mr. Lubitsch's deft and tender management and with a genial company to play it gently, well this side of farce and well that side of utter seriousness.

| Nov 8, 2022

It's a simple but effective comedy-drama, telling a very human story... Director Lubitsch has put on a lot of his characteristic comedy touches but he has also woven plenty of dramatic interludes into the picture.

| Nov 8, 2022

Ernst Lubitsch has directed the thing delicately, deftly, managing its large amount of sweet humor with a careful eye for the critical palate.

| Nov 8, 2022

It is a gem whose worth is not a superficial sparkle but a glow of warmth lighted by sincere characterization and an evanescent beauty that is caught in an awakening love.

| Nov 8, 2022

It is told in such a way as to warm the cockles of the heart and send the audience away from the theatre the better for having been permitted this intimate glimpse into the lives and loves of the personnel of the Matuschek store in Budapest.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 8, 2022

When the great [Lubitsch's] name appears at the head of the production list, it's a lead pipe cinch that the fan will leave the theater with a chuckle and a feeling of satisfaction.

| Nov 8, 2022

Little feats of salesmanship become exciting and funny under [Lubitsch's] touch; also the rages of the leather goods merchant and his pride of establishment, and the corps spirit that prevails in the Christmas rush.

| Nov 8, 2022

Adroitly directed by the screen wise Lubitsch, The Shop Around the corner turns out to be one of those films about which we say: "It is a LOVELY thing!"

| Nov 8, 2022

[The actors] are all as right as right can be and lightest of all is the quiet charm with which Lubitsch has taken a frivolous little Molnaresque story and turned it into a silken and witty ninety minutes of delectable froth.

| Nov 8, 2022

It has nothing except a series of moods, but they're priceless moods, spun into piquant fabrics by Miss Margaret Sullavan and Mr. James Stewart and Mr. Frank Morgan and Mr. Felix Bressart, and embroidered by the unmistakable fancy-work of Mr. Lubitsch.

| Nov 8, 2022

It is one of the simple, subtle, unpretentious pictures which leave the customer with a warm and satisfied feeling, as if he had just spent a thoroughly pleasant evening with some very likeable people.

| Nov 8, 2022

In The Shop Around the Corner one finds genuine entertainment. Here is Ernst Lubitsch at his best, exploiting the good hearts and little peculiarities of nice average people.

| Nov 8, 2022

Though we pretend to believe in this happy Lubitsch world, we know we're pretending. It is a toy we could reach out and break; but why break our toys. There are few enough of them left, with the toyshops all closing down.

| Nov 8, 2022

It's directed with the touch of insight and of delicate humor. It is unlikely that you will roar with laughter, or burst into tears, yet throughout the film you will struggle with a desire to cry a little and catch yourself chuckling instead.

| Nov 8, 2022

[This film] has something about it... We're at a loss to determine just what that something is. It may be the Lubitsch touch and then again it may be because James Stewart and. Margaret Sullavan are the stars. But whatever it is, there's plenty of it.

| Nov 8, 2022

In bringing warmth and his customary piquant humor to the emotions and problems of these workaday folk, Lubitsch is assisted by some knowing players. Teamed for the third time, James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan are perfectly cast as the youngsters.

| Nov 7, 2022