This is one of the most satisfying films ever made; timeless and still stunning in its revolutionary and assured use of the medium.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 31, 2024

The movie is the greatest extravaganza and the greatest folly in movie history, an epic celebration of the potentialities of the new medium -- lyrical, passionate, and grandiose.

Full Review | Feb 5, 2024

This will likely always place highly on lists of the greatest films of all time.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Feb 3, 2023

Intolerance is stupendous, it's great, marvelous inspiring, and everything else good you can think of in the category of descriptive adjectives.

Full Review | Nov 13, 2020

Reinforces director D.W. Griffith's place as a master crafter of grandiose cinema, while also serving as something of a response to the criticisms of his previous epic.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 27, 2020

We believe that Intolerance will do much to abate the prejudicial feeling created by The Clansman.

Full Review | Sep 30, 2019

David W. Griffith is an immature philosopher, a wrongheaded sociologist, a hazy theologian, a flamboyant historian, but a great movie man.

Full Review | Aug 8, 2019

As a medium for expressing art, moving pictures may not stand the test of time, but Intolerance is greater than any medium. It is one of the mileposts on the long road of art.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2019

If Intolerance is sometimes quaint, it reminds one of what cinema might do at its most ideal. Griffith's hopes for the movies are still stirring

Full Review | Dec 31, 2016

Intolerance is undoubtedly cinematic paradigm, but more than this, it's a window through which we can peer 100 years into the past.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 5, 2014

All at once the Moloch of cineastical good intentions, the first great juggernaut of auteur ambition, and the largest experimental film ever made.

Full Review | May 9, 2014

Griffith's trademark closeups lend a quivering lip or a trembling hand the tragic grandeur of historical cataclysm.

Full Review | May 5, 2014

This was clearly not conceived as a sleek, effective narrative or even an exploration of character psychology, but as a tremendous, overwhelming experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 31, 2014

D.W. Griffith's masterpiece, likely the most influential film ever made, has been given new life with a gold-standard digital cleanup.

Full Review | Nov 30, 2013

Griffith's 'Intolerance' was way ahead of its time in terms of its camera angles, sophisticated storytelling, and elaborate set construction. And the restoration and HD treatment makes it shine.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 16, 2013

Intolerance is thrilling and vital, a collision of historical periods that feels as earth-shaking as the movement of tectonic plates.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 5, 2013

Intolerance looks both backward and forward. The strong exploit the weak, it cries, and all governments throughout history are evil.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2013

Influential landmark epic silent film.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Dec 27, 2010

Foreshadows what film could be -- spectacle reinforcing eternal themes of love and death -- and, at its best, would be.

Full Review | Dec 1, 2009

A landmark, to be certain, but wildly uneven.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 16, 2009