The Crowd 1928

Mordaunt Hall, New York Times: Throughout this subject Mr. Vidor shrewdly avoids the stereotyped conception of setting forth scenes, and in more than one case he uses his camera in an inspired fashion. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: The camera style owes something to Murnau, but the sense of space -- the vast environments that define and attack his protagonists -- is Vidor's own. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Vidor, playing to that crowd, sternly warns against going it alone. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: What's extraordinary is that what could have come off as a case study instead packs a consistently strong emotional punch. Read more

Tom Milne, Time Out: The performances are absolutely flawless, and astonishing location work in the busy New York streets (including a giddy tour of Coney Island on a blind date) lends a gritty ring of truth to his intensely human odyssey. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: A drab actionless story of ungodly length and apparently telling nothing. Read more