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"One of the many remarkable things about Charlie Chaplin is that his films continue to hold up, to attract and delight audiences.

"So his decision to release a series of his best films must have sometimes seemed like a risk."

"Here in Chicago they've been booked in the Carnegie Theater, where the staff hardly knows what hit it."

"The movie has a plot that defies common sense, but its very discontinuity is a strength."

"It makes ``Metropolis'' hallucinatory--a nightmare without the reassurance of a steadying story line."