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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The DissolveScott TobiasThe DissolveScott TobiasIntolerance is thrilling and vital, a collision of historical periods that feels as earth-shaking as the movement of tectonic plates.
- 100Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumProbably the most influential of all silent films after The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance launched ideas about associative editing that have been essential to the cinema ever since, from Soviet montage classics to recent American experimental films. And in the use of crosscutting and action to generate suspense, the film's climax hasn't been surpassed.
- 100CineVueBen NicholsonCineVueBen NicholsonIntolerance may not be perfect, but with such gargantuan spectacle and timeless mastery of form on show, it is nigh on impossible not to be swept up by this centruy-spanning extravanganza and its medium-shaping impact.
- 100EmpireDavid ParkinsonEmpireDavid ParkinsonIt may seem flawed in a number of ways to some people but this is monumental cinema and essential viewing for true film enthusiasts.
- 100A powerful humane statement and a towering work of art.
- 100Village VoiceAaron CutlerVillage VoiceAaron CutlerThe pure, simple love between couples is threatened by other people’s ignorance throughout D.W. Griffith’s film epic Intolerance.
- 100Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrOne of the great breakthroughs—the Ulysses of the cinema—and a powerful, moving experience in its own right.
- For in spite of its utter incoherence, the questionable taste of some of its scenes and the cheap banalties into which it sometimes lapses Intolerance is an interesting and unusual picture. The stupendousness of its panoramas, the grouping and handling of its great masses of players, make it an impressive spectacle.
- 80Time OutTime OutThe thematic approach no longer works (if it ever did); the title cards are stiffly Victorian and sometimes laughably pedantic; but the visual poetry is overwhelming, especially in the massed crowd scenes.