
Monsieur Verdoux is a bluebeard, he marries women and kills them after the marriage to get the money he needs for his family. But with two ladies he has bad luck.... (Full plot summary below)
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Monsieur Verdoux is a bluebeard, he marries women and kills them after the marriage to get the money he needs for his family. But with two ladies he has bad luck.
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| New York TimesBosley CrowtherAn engrossingly wry and paradoxical film, screamingly funny in places, sentimental in others, sometimes slow and devoted to an unusually serious and sobering argument. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martin..one of those overreaching "important" films that insists a little much on moralizing. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseMonsieur Verdoux can boast a screenplay with a highly unusual moral complexity and a deeply philosophical bent...Yes, Verdoux is a film that name-drops Schopenhauer, but it's also damn funny... [Blu-ray] |
| New York Magazine/VultureSara CardaceIn its uncanny depiction of a weakling whose crimes pale against those of the war-mad society around him, it's a near masterpiece. |
| DVDJournal.comMark BourneThe intensely felt social criticism that audiences had seen growing in Modern Times and especially The Great Dictator is elevated to an astonishing level of sarcasm and subversive irony. |
| Movie MetropolisChristopher LongThe film's cynical vision is as lucid as it is unrelenting. |
| Slant MagazineJoshua VasquezThe film is not only an account of the moral slippage of one man but the record of a far larger, seemingly uncontrollable escalation. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheySimultaneously ethical and unethical, the snappily dressed Verdoux exists as an extraordinary challenge to capitalism's status quo during its seismic swing toward fascism. |
| Seattle TimesJeff ShannonPerfection? Arguably not; Verdoux has clunky moments and some flat casting, but with an able assist from the great comedian Martha Raye, Chaplin's latter-day greatness is readily apparent. |
| Cinema SightWesley LovellIt's not often you find Charlie Chaplin in the rare role of a villain, but he does nice work in this small tale of lies and murder. |