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====Contemporary reviews==== ''A Night at the Opera'' was banned in Budapest.<ref name="variety-122-1936-04_0052">{{cite news |title=Banned in Budapest |url=https://lantern.mediahist.org/catalog/variety122-1936-04_0052 |access-date=7 July 2023 |magazine=Variety |date=April 1, 1936 |page=52}}</ref> Contemporary reviews were positive. [[Andre Sennwald]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote, "If 'A Night at the Opera' is a trifle below their best, it is also considerably above the standard of laughter that has been our portion since they quit the screen. George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind have given them a resounding slapstick to play with and they wield it with maniacal delight."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A05E6D6163CE53ABC4F53DFB467838E629EDE |title=Three of the Four Marx Brothers in 'A Night at the Opera,' at the Capitol |last=Sennwald |first=Andre |author-link=Andre Sennwald |date=December 7, 1935 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=December 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20161230005230/http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A05E6D6163CE53ABC4F53DFB467838E629EDE |archive-date=2016-12-30 |url-status=unfit}}</ref> "The comedy material is always good and sometimes brilliant", reported ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]''.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Boyum |editor1-first=Joy Gould |title=Film as film: Critical Responses to Film Art |date=1971 |page=307 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/filmasfilmcritic0000boyu/page/285/ |access-date=April 12, 2022 |chapter=Joe Bigelow, Variety (December 11, 1935)}}</ref> "This should be a laugh fest with all types of audiences", wrote ''[[Film Daily]]''.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 17, 1935 |title=Reviews of the New Films |journal=[[Film Daily]] |location=New York |page=4 }}</ref> "This is a good Marx Brothers film, good as any they have done", wrote [[John Mosher (writer)|John Mosher]] in ''[[The New Yorker]]''. "It may not be new or surprising, but it's quick and funny."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Mosher |first=John |author-link=John Mosher (writer) |date=December 14, 1935 |title=The Current Cinema |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |pages=116β117}}</ref>
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