A less-than-fitting tribute to a great age of innovation and artistry.

Rating: 7/10 (26 May 2014)

A unfitting tribute to the age of silent cinema and the rise of the "talkies". The Artist is a surprisingly funny and dynamic film considering its limitations, although it is surprisingly thematically one-dimensional considering it is ultimately a meta-commentary on the film industry. And, of course, it isn't nearly as good as the real masterpieces of silent film.
It's score is obviously designed to be cliché and dated, but I would have liked it to be less so.
The cinematography doesn't feel as powerful and beautiful as some of the great innovators of cinema, like Joan of Arc, Sunrise, Nosferatu, or Man with a Movie Camera.
Overall, The Artist is an okay if stilted tribute to a bygone age - but don't expect the greatness of the real thing; in the end it is basically like an good Elvis Tribute act. But then again, it is the only film trying, so...