Worth every wonderful accolade it receives (ignore the detractors)

Rating: 10/10 (5 April 2012)

Seeing this film was one of the highlights of my movie-going life. It's perfect: not a shot or sequence wasted or forced. And the acting is uniformly superb. In addition, the cinematography is glorious. Moreover, the finale is stunning. Unfortunately, as with any great success, this film has attracted naysayers. Sadly, their comments are typically rants that essentially ignore the work itself such as "I hate silent film" and "This is not what life in the 1920s was really like." I will admit that I've been an incurable fan of silent film since I witnessed my first non-talkie in the mid-1980s (Chaplin's "City Lights"), so much so that my view of film as a medium has never been the same. However, ignore the baseless negative commentary, go see this masterpiece (this wonderful homage to all that was silent cinema), and be completely spellbound and enraptured in a darkened theater like you never have before.