This greatest of silent comedies could be subtitled “Hunger” — not just for a decent meal, but for financial stability, for the love of a good woman and for a house that isn’t perched precariously on the edge of a cliff.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 31, 2025

It is easy to be a comedian; but Chaplin is something more. Behind all his ludicrous antics there is a deeps sympathy with human weakness.

| Dec 14, 2023

The film captures the humor and the tragedy of one man’s life in the gold rush era and the end is inspirationally poetic.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 5, 2023

Charlie Chaplin’s frozen north classic is just as funny today as it was seventy years ago, and just as mawkishly sentimental.

| May 6, 2023

Sadness at the heart of laughter: it is certain that, with The Gold Rush, Chaplin perfectly expressed this emotion.

| May 26, 2022

A monumental, historic comedy.

| Apr 14, 2022

One of Charlie Chaplin's most endearing and popular works.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 27, 2020

Chaplin's greatest comedy is also his most recognizable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 30, 2020

Some moments of the film encapsulate Chaplin's imagination and skill. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 23, 2019

Charles Chaplin scores once again one of his greatest triumphs. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 16, 2019

Chaplin may have made better films during his career, but his unique charm remains just as timeless as ever.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 6, 2019

The Gold Rush is Chaplin's greatest picture.

| May 17, 2019

The first comedy of epic proportions has reached the screen.

| Apr 19, 2019

It is a delight to see again how Chaplin utilises every second of screen-time.

| Feb 15, 2019

Let no one fail to appreciate those small details, of [Chaplin's] perfectly timed and quite exquisite acting, as when he has most kindly boiled one of his famous boots for a starving miner-pal, and serves it up after due testing with a fork.

| May 8, 2018

Chaplin is the apotheosis of the world's despised and downtrodden, and also their hope; he heralds a revolution in anarchic beauty.

| Jul 29, 2013

I prophesied that Chaplin, with his finer comedy and his less spectacular farce, would not be able to hold his popularity against it. What has happened is precisely the reverse of what I predicted.

| Jan 23, 2013

The result is a sight for sore eyes, for old-style Chaplin fans and novitiates alike.

| Sep 14, 2012

It shows Chaplin mixing slapstick with heartbreak like nobody else could. It's plotted in an episodic fashion, but each piece of the puzzle is also a memorable, entertaining bit in and of itself.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 4, 2012

No one can mix slapstick and sentimentality quite like Chaplin.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 13, 2012