News Summary

• The first movie reviewed in the first issue, dated February 21, 1925, was the German director F. W. Murnau’s “The Last Laugh,” a remarkable drama of working life.
• “We have never seen the camera made so pliable to moods and moments.” The judgment was notably forward-looking and turned out to be exemplary.
• Its passionate discernment and its attention to developments in the art of cinema set the tone for the magazine's illustrious inaugural year of film criticism.