The Artist
In the 1920s, actor George Valentin, a bona fide matinee idol, finds himself falling in love with an ingenue named Peppy Miller. But the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.
17 April 1963, Wilmette, Illinois, USA
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13 February 1986, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
10 July 1984, San Diego, California, USA
7 July 1976, Buenos Aires, Argentina
11 July 1952, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
16 November 1972, Houston, Texas, USA
October 20, 1970 in England, UK
9 October 1942, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
19 January 1981, San Diego, California, USA
16 August 1969, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
25 March 1985, Santa Cruz, California, USA
February 24, 2016
Writer-director Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist is not for a nanosecond fun-though it works hard to be so. Basically, it is A Star Is Born knockoff.
June 20, 2013
The whole thing is so damn clever and charming, it might just sneak off with Best Picture.
February 26, 2017
It's inarguable that you'll leave The Artist with a spring in your step and a grin on your face.
May 03, 2015
This is a bauble, not a jewel.
February 26, 2017
One desperately wants to enjoy the cinematic escapade but the fun eventually wears thin as the familiar narrative fails to illuminate the magic of the movies during its infancy.
February 17, 2015
Michel Hazanavicius' black-and-white, mostly silent comedy The Artist is a gorgeously made curiosity -- a film that functions as a testament to its own obsession with other movies.
February 15, 2013
It isn't arty or intellectual, though it is artful and ingenious, and it's the rare crowd-pleaser that never feels obvious or pandering.
February 26, 2017
As the scattershot everything-at-once world of Net connectivity ever decreases our ability to concentrate, the mere act of turning down the sensory input for an experience seems like a bold act of cultural resistance.
April 17, 2012
You can't fault it as smart entertainment, which eschews parody to make a sincere tribute that also serves as cogent current commentary.
February 17, 2015
Uplifting, heart-warming, hilarious... not necessarily words you'd expect to apply to a black and white silent French film. But The Artist is no ordinary movie.
February 15, 2013
There is literally nothing wrong with it. I don't have a single nit to pick, minor flaw to point out or little bit that annoyed me. It is pure magic from the first frame to the last.
