It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

The acting in this movie is really good.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The legacy from the Victorian age that was brought into the Edwardian age was the novel. This was the basis for a number of Griffith's films, but he took it a stage further with visual narrative through editing. This film marks the transition between the Victorian novel and the visual narrative.