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Critical Essay by Jack Kroll
Mel Brooks's "Silent Movie" is a take-off on silent movies, but it also uses the silent movie as a way of getting a fresh angle on today's worl...
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Critical Essay by John Simon
Mel Brooks's comic gift, such as it is, is largely verbal and stands to lose too much in a silent movie; and … what was once done so well was done out of nec...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
[Silent Movie is Brooks's] best picture to date. That's limited praise, surely, still this is his most organic film, the least desperately outrageous....
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Critical Essay by Judith Crist
[In Silent Movie] Brooks has concocted a talkie with a gimmick. The gimmickry here involves parodies of silent-movie jokes and simplistic plotting. The absence of realis...
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Critical Essay by Jack Kroll
