“In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke it is written, the kingdom of God is within man, not one man or a group of men but in all men.”
That’s what Charlie Chaplin told the world in The Great Dictator, in a vain attempt to somehow end World War II with an appeal for international brotherhood. The current issue of the perennially NSFW Bright Lights Film Journal contains my review of this film, along with riffs on forgotten Hollywood columnist/film critic Ezra Goodman and a not terribly necessary documentary, For the Love of Movies — The Story of American Film Criticism.
