One of Keaton's most impressively self-reflective films and an ode to the unexpected and elusive lightening-in-a-bottle nature of filmmaking.

...registers as a strung-together package of exceedingly clever Keaton shorts.

The talkies are progressing rapidly, but it will be a long time before they can produce comedies that approach the old silent standard.

An important missing piece in Keaton's oeuvre, but it represents a turning point in his career from which he would never recover.