Buster Keaton was a comedian and director of the silent era whose films, including The General and Sherlock Jr., combined his gift for physical comedy with inventive cinematic technique. I have reviewed 6 of his films on the site so far.
Rating: 2.5★
By 1928, Buster Keaton had spent the better part of a decade building one of the most remarkable bodies of work in American cinema. Films like The General and Sherlock Jr. had established him not merely as a popular comedian but as a genuinely inventive filmmaker, someone who understood the
Genre Action
★★★½ — The General (1926)
Genre Comedy
★★ — Our Hospitality (1923)
Genre Comedy
★★½ — The Navigator (1924)
Genre Comedy
★★★ — Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
Genre Action
★★★ — Sherlock Jr. (1924)
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