A sobering thought occurred to me while rewatching Charles Chaplin’s once-controversial comedy “Monsieur Verdoux”: “Juno” and Judd Apatow’s crudely terrific movies notwithstanding, I hadn’t seen a ...

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for ...

Monsieur Verdoux, about a contemporary Bluebeard who makes a career out of marrying wealthy women and then murdering them for their money, is one of Charles Chaplin’s most controversial films. It also ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

With his 1947 provocation “Monsieur Verdoux,” Charlie Chaplin completed a remarkable transformation from the universally beloved Little Tramp to a vilified monster both on-screen and off. In the most ...

“Monsieur Verdoux” is part of a coincidental Charlie Chaplin trifecta that’s joined by “The Gold Rush” (the recent DVD release of which, by Criterion, I discuss in the magazine this week) and ...

Charles Chaplin chose exactly the wrong time to re-invent himself, at least as far as the American moviegoing public was concerned. After being hailed for the boldness of his Hitler-bashing 1940 ...

BEFORE HANNIBAL LECTER, before Psycho, before the serial killer film became the pervasive genre of our time, a post- Little Tramp Charlie Chaplin explored the venerable but now largely unfamiliar ...

Read up on the latest Monsieur Verdoux News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. Monsieur Verdoux follows Henri Verdoux, a former bank clerk who turns to marrying and murdering wealthy ...