Though it was largely dismissed by critics upon initial release, "Pandora's Box" was rediscovered among film scholars in the 1950s, and began to accrue acclaim, eventually earning the reputation of being an unsung classic. Contemporarily, it is considered one of the classics of Weimar Germany's cinema, along with "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", "Metropolis", "The Last Laugh", and "The Blue Angel". Brooks' talent as an actress, which had been criticized upon the film's initial release (specifically by German critics), was also subject to international reappraisal and acclaim from the likes of European critics such as Lotte H. Eisner, Henri Langlois, and David Thomson.