Ultimately, the film has a powerful emotional impact, but it is achieved the hard way -- through the mind rather than the viscera -- and only in Its own good time.

| Aug 30, 2019

Truffaut brought more cinematic acumen to this minute-long sequence than many filmmakers deploy in an entire feature.

| Nov 29, 2018

It is as though Truffaut has drawn on everything he knows about cinema to express unshakable loyalty to the written word.

| Jul 6, 2018

Truffaut's movie clearly suffered from a troubled shoot - Truffaut didn't actually know English - so his oddball take on the material succeeds in only fits and bursts.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 16, 2014

Even at the science-fiction horror-story level, the movie fails -- partly, I think, because Truffaut is too much of an artist to exploit the vulgar possibilities in the material.

| Aug 30, 2012

Bradbury's 1954 vision of a totalitarian society where technology is worshiped and books are burned has been neutered and consigned to camp.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 29, 2010

Truffaut faces Bradbury's abstractions head on, not as science-fiction but as humanistic fairy-tale

| Oct 26, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2008

On the downside, it doesn't particularly feel like a Truffaut film, but on the upside, it's a decent entry in the sci-fi genre.

| Jan 31, 2008

This 1966 film often looks good (it was Truffaut's first in color, photographed by Nicolas Roeg), but the ideas, such as they are, get lost in the meandering narrative.

| Jun 5, 2007

A marvelously courageous personal statement that becomes more fascinating with time.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 5, 2007

With a serious and even terrifying theme, this excursion into science fiction has been thoughtfully directed by Francois Truffaut and there is adequate evidence of light touches to bring welcome and needed relief to a sombre and scarifying subject.

| Jun 5, 2007

An underrated film, perhaps because it is less science fiction than a tale of 'once upon a time.'

| Jan 26, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 18, 2005

While not one of Truffaut's strongest film, it is nonetheless one of his few explicitly political works and also boasts sharp imagery by Roeg) and indelible score by Herrmann.

| Original Score: B | Jul 2, 2005

trgico constatar que a viso de Bradbury vem tornando-se cada vez mais real: a diferena que, em vez de queimados, os livros vm sendo simplesmente ignorados.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 17, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 14, 2005

A keen adaptation of Ray Bradbury's novel by Truffaut; eerie in its simplicity and matter-of-factness about book burning and Big Brotherism.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 28, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2004