It’s impossible to imagine Tarantino’s italicized pulp fiction without the arch influence of this effervescent caper.

| Oct 10, 2022

Viewed by some as Godard’s most accessible movie, “Band of Outsiders” is a playful, saucy romp which has influenced a variety of filmmakers through the decades that have followed.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

A documentary of Godard's affection for Karina.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 17, 2021

Diving into cultural malice and the crisis of being young and clueless, the film exhumes coolness and for once makes the filmmaker accessible to everyone who was ever sold into his cocky attitude only to be disappointed later.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 16, 2020

I yawned all through with what I thought was wild boredom, but realised afterwards was fury and distaste, because in fact nothing Godard does is ever boring in the sense of being uninteresting,

| Jan 29, 2019

The Godard movie you use to turn people into Godard-heads, 'Band of Outsiders' wasn't, as it were, always liked.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2016

Behind its substantial charm and light touch is a movie that's more morbid, alienated, and personal than it lets on.

| Original Score: A | May 5, 2016

Godard, the cocky provocateur, breaks every rule of filmmaking he can muster...[it's] a rejection of traditions--all of 'em, de qualité or otherwise--and an embrace of the new.

| May 4, 2016

Besides being a stirring portrait of a youth culture in crisis, the film is very charming and accessible - especially for anyone that's experienced teen alienation...at once a snapshot in time and a timeless piece of cinema.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 17, 2013

So polished and assured it casts the supremely difficult illusion of being easy to make.

| Original Score: 10/10 | May 22, 2013

The film sees Godard parsing out his feelings for Karina, then his wife, and meditating on the mercurial nature of his own preoccupations.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 7, 2011

An early masterpiece from Godard, trail-blazing, involving and charmingly enjoyable.

| Mar 3, 2008

It offers 10 times more pleasures than the average picture.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 3, 2008

This 1964 feature remains one of Godard's most appealing and underrated films, relatively relaxed and strangely optimistic.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 3, 2008

One of Godard's most accessible pictures. A good place to learn how much of a debt modern cinema owes him.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Grave, light-hearted and quietly poetic.

| Oct 21, 2006

One must remember that even a lesser Godard is likely to be much more stimulating than another director's better films.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2006

One of Godard's most open and enjoyable films.

| Feb 11, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 11, 2005