Film Review: a darker insight to The Real Charlie Chaplin

"...while the directors, Peter Middleton and James Spinney, are unstinting in uncovering paeans to Chaplin’s comic genius, they don’t neglect his darker side, and especially the allegations of ‘predatory behaviour’..."

The Real Charlie Chaplin: unflinching in all aspects of the actor's legacy

★★★★☆

In 1916 Charlie Chaplin ‘was famous in a way that no one had ever been before,’ largely due to his being the most recognisable face in the revolutionary new medium of motion pictures.