Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Ricardo Daly The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Catherina If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

deickemeyer This is one of Mack Sennett's farcical comedies which causes hearty laughter all through the action. It is certainly rapid-fire and has been well photographed. - The Moving Picture World, April 18, 1914

tavm This is the first Charlie Chaplin short that is severely lacking in laughs for me. In this one, he plays the title character who likes the landlady and she seems to like in return to the consternation of her husband who threatens Charlie when his wife's not looking. Meanwhile, he seems to have a lady himself he fancies. Then there's their son who has a camera...The only sequence I found even remotely amusing was the tennis scene where Charlie gets hit a couple of times. Otherwise, I found the whole thing tedious and boring and not even a drunk scene could liven things up nor another fight sequence. In summary, The Star Border was the first Chaplin short that was serious lacking in entertainment value for me. It's only worth a look if you're a Chaplin completetist.

CitizenCaine Chaplin gets involved with his landlady and her husband and a comedy of errors ensues and is revealed by the landlady's son before it's all over. This is another typical Keystone production filled with some sight gags, particularly on the tennis court, goofiness, exaggerated mannerisms, and out of place scenes which have nothing to do with anything. Chaplin's scene with the ice box is a case in point. We've seen his drunken bit a bit too much by now. As it is, these early Keystone films were largely experimental with performers feeling their way and ad-libbing through films, trying to find what's right for audiences and maybe discover something new. This film does nothing new for Chaplin. *1/2 of 4 stars.

23skidoo-4 Charlie Chaplin was still working out the kinks in his Little Tramp character with this rather tame comedy of errors. This one generated barely a chuckle from me, perhaps due to the lack of chemistry between Chaplin and his so-called leading lady in this film, playing a landlady whom everyone thinks Charlie is in love with.Perhaps had Mabel Normand been given the role of the landlady, there might have been a bit more spark. Certainly Chaplin's later leading lady, Edna Purviance, would have been perfect in the role. But such as not to be.There are a few funny moments, such as when Charlie bats a tennis ball out of sight (reflecting perhaps the real-life Chaplin's growing interest in the sport?), and a pointless though funny sequence in which Charlie raids a fridge and gets drunk.The best and funniest sequence comes near the end when the landlady's son, who secretly photographed the comedies of errors between his mom, his dad, and Charlie, puts on a special "parents gone wild" slide show and the usual Keystone mayhem ensues. The boy, incidentally, is played by Gordon Griffith, who appeared in a number of Chaplin's Keystone comedies before making a name for himself as Tarzan's son.The Star Boarder falls somewhere in the middle ground of Chaplin's Keystone comedies. There's enough humor to hold one's interest, but it can't be considered one of his better works.