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Ninotchka

Garbo Laughs!

1939 · 1h 50m · Approved Comedy, Romance
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

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A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

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95%
Tomatometer
Fresh

This one is neither crude clowning nor crude prejudice, but a literate and knowingly directed satire which lands many a shrewd crack about phony Five Year Plans, collective farms, Communist jargon and pseudo-scientific gab.

Whittaker Chambers, TIME Magazine
Fresh

Ninotchka is delicate flirtation and political satire made into a perfect whole, and a reminder of skills that studio writers have largely lost.

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Fresh

Selection of Ernst Lubitsch to pilot Garbo in her first light performance in pictures proves a bull's-eye.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

The satire may be mostly a matter of easy contrasts, but the lovers inhabit a world of elegance and poise that is uniquely and movingly Lubitsch's.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh

One of the sprightliest comedies of the year.

Frank S. Nugent, New York Times

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