97% The Artist

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"The Artist" drags, as any film telling its story with its mouth and ears tied behind its back can be expected to. But it's a lovely bit of froth, the meringue on a cinema season that is both high-minded and awards oriented.

'The Artist': Michel Hazanavicius's novelty film owes much to Jean Dujardin's irresistible smile

For a movie that is so much about technique, it's surprising how affecting the story is.

The Artist is the most surprising and delightful film of 2011.

A silent movie shot in sumptuous black-and-white, no less. A silent flick made with not a jot of distancing winking, but instead born of a heady affection for a bygone, very bygone, era of filmmaking.

It's a rocket to the moon fueled by unadulterated joy and pure imagination.

It's a deliriously, wondrously, unspeakably fabulous film.

You're likely to be as smiling as much as George Valentin.

As frothy, upbeat tales of old Hollywood go, it's superb, full of small delights and general sunshine.

A good, but not great film, it's plot seemingly derived from well-known films about films made back in the 1950s such as 'Singin' in the Rain'.

If you want to see some spectacularly adorable if not particularly lasting or memorable dog tricks, The Artist is the film you've been waiting for.

Hazanavicius has woven together a variety of cinematic styles from different eras to make a silent film that is easily accessible to a contemporary audience.

Its appeal lies in its innate ability of tapping into that sense of joy that lies within us all. It is irresistibly charming. It is unmissable.

Everything about The Artist is unique, from its beautiful black and white images as it pays tribute to the silent movies of the 1920s to the casting choices and the resolution

It's easy to be captivated by this unique, universal piece that above all makes us care for its characters as we journey through a maze of emotions

Artist a lovingly rendered homage.

What The Artist says about people who would like to sentimentalize and suspend the film industry in a bell jar is brilliant.

The Artist, as calculated as you know it is, is simply impossible to resist.

'The Artist' is an utterly charming film that earns its audience's support the old-fashioned way.

A warm and comfy dose of old-school charm and smile-inducing entertainment.

Terrific entertainment -- not an academic exercise but an unabashed crowd-pleaser.

'The Artist' offers a unique cinematic experience in an age when extremely loud sound effects attack our eardrums while watching so many current movies.

The Artist delights in an ingeniously straightforward way that exceeds many a modern, technologically advanced, effects-loaded, big-budget blockbuster.

A silent movie that speaks louder and with more power than a dozen films packed with pages and pages of dialogue. Definitely the year's best movie.

Imaginative, gorgeous, witty and even kind of sexy.

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