The overall conception may owe something to Chaplin's City Lights, released two years earlier, but the remarkable editing and mise en scene show Milestone at his most inspired and inventive. (There's a parodic Eisensteinian montage cut to the syllables of "America" that has to be seen to be believed, and a tracking shot past muttering customers in a spacious bank is equally brilliant and subversive.)
Jonathan Rosenbaum
agosto 30, 1996