Dramatically speaking, it's [Jean-Luc Godard's] most fast-moving and hard-hitting in some time.

| Mar 18, 2025

Gives “eat the rich” an even deeper meaning.

| Jun 15, 2022

If you want a movie that can actually make cleansing comic fodder out of our society's destructive bent, Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove makes Weekend's satire look like the undisciplined posturing it really is.

| Aug 18, 2021

A revolutionary breakthrough in natrative cinema.

| Jan 25, 2020

The story has charm and piquancy...

| Sep 12, 2019

A towering and exhilarating piece of work that seems to embody the social upheaval of the 1960s in one bracing, often shocking, cinematic experience.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 6, 2019

Year after year, Jean-Luc Godard has been chipping away at the language of cinema. Now, in Weekend, he has just about got down to the bare bones. This is his best film, and his most inventive. It is almost pure movie.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 3, 2018

[Jean-Luc] Godard is intent on having his cake and eating it too.

| Sep 18, 2017

In the absurdist dark comedy, Western society never looked so sickening on film.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 30, 2013

an apocalyptic primal scream against the conformities and hypocrisies of the Americanized French bourgeoisie and one of the most lacerating and funny satires of car culture ever produced

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 27, 2012

As long as cinema like this exists, there's no end in sight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 5, 2011

This apocalyptic farce-Alice in Wonderland as reconceived by the Marquis de Sade-would mark both the high point and the end of Godard's meteoric career as a popular artist.

| Oct 4, 2011

Uncompromisingly cynical and completely unforgiving, Week End is a satire so black, you couldn't see hope if it was dancing in front of your eyes carrying sparklers and singing La Marseillaise.

| Original Score: 83/100 | Aug 9, 2011

This is Lord of the Flies as played by adults, and for Left Bank intellectuals, heady with righteous protest and wired on too many coffees and cigarettes

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 17, 2010

There is nothing predictable about Weekend; Godard uses the camera as a radical satirical tool, inserting it up the backside of a society he perceives as lost, constrained and confused. And so are we.

| Mar 23, 2008

A film that reads itself, tells the viewer what that reading should be, and at the same time tells the viewer that this reading is inaccurate and should be ignored.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 20, 2008

Visionary, insane, and barbarously funny; don't miss the chance to accept the challenge Weekend is still dying to make.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 9, 2006

Weekend is a luridly colorful compendium of aesthetic juxtapositions and audio-visual schisms that evoke the frustrated tenor of the era.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 29, 2005

give the man credit for bitching about the human condition in style

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2005

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