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

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

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 of Godard's most open and enjoyable films.

| Feb 11, 2006

As charming as seasoned film buffs remember and as refreshing as initiates expect.

Full Review | Jan 17, 2002

Delivers one clever idea atop another.

| Jan 4, 2002

It's as if a French poet took an ordinary banal American crime novel and told it to us in terms of the romance and beauty he read between the lines.

| Dec 8, 2001

The structure of the film feels like freedom. And truth.

| Dec 7, 2001

Watching it, you can almost sense the way the world looked and smelled back in the heyday of the young Beatles and the dying Hollywood Golden Age.

Full Review | Dec 6, 2001

An inexhaustible meditation on how the world is formed by desire.

Full Review | Sep 7, 2001

I recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it before.

| Aug 31, 2001

Shows [Godard] at his most amusing, and that is no small thing.

| Aug 21, 2001

Perhaps Godard's loveliest movie, certainly his tenderest and most accessible.

| Aug 21, 2001

A masterpiece of mood, nuance and emotion.

Full Review | Aug 17, 2001

Rialto Pictures is re-releasing the movie in a new print ... providing a chance to speculate on the nature of its peculiar appeal, which holds up remarkably well.

| Aug 17, 2001

Challenging, to be sure, but also relentlessly entertaining.

Full Review | Aug 17, 2001

Along with Raoul Coutard's radiant cinematography, what makes the film extraordinary is Karina.

Full Review | Aug 14, 2001

Emphatically entertaining, provocatively self-assured.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2001