Chazelle doesn’t succumb to easy sentiment. If anything, he moves too far in the other direction, aiming for a wizened ambiguity that doesn’t entirely come off.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 23, 2023

Chazelle has created a vibrant and lively romance brimming with joy - a messy and infectious ode to good old fashioned moviemaking.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 5, 2019

...has more ambition than its talent can possibly live up to.

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

A tribute befitting Boston, readily comparable to Woody Allen's bittersweet homage to his own beloved Manhattan. Appreciate Damien Chazelle now and avoid the rush!

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 9, 2017

Chazelle is an exceptionally talented filmmaker. Let's hope the independent film world has enough life left in it to do him justice.

| Jun 14, 2013

A celebration of cinephilia and music and dance

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 28, 2011

Chazelle is more interested in having fun with this witty melange than in hammering home a filmic style lesson. So enjoy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 3, 2011

Strongly influenced by Demy's Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

| Original Score: A- | May 6, 2011

Equally nostalgic and fresh-faced, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench is a bohemian musical that owes as much to Cassavetes Shadows as it does the French musicals of the '30s.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 27, 2011

Whenever "Guy and Madeline" becomes a musical, it soars.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 6, 2011

Part 1940s musical, part New Wave, part cinéma vérité, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench is a modern hybrid in the contemporary mumblecore movement.

| Dec 22, 2010

"Guy and Madeline'' is the work of an artist - Damien Chazelle - you want to know better. It's whimsical and winsome and a touch quaint.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 16, 2010

This is a story of few words, a lot of great music and countless emotional shadings.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2010

It's meandering, whimsical and definitely different.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 3, 2010

Guy and Madeline is a decidedly modern film, whose frightened, impulsive, charming characters could walk into our lives tomorrow.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 3, 2010

[An] extraordinary black-and-white retro dream of a feature debut...

| Original Score: A | Nov 18, 2010

Enchanting song-and-dance numbers burst onto the screen as full-fledged musical tours de force. . . mak[ing] the typical mumblecore scenes in-between that much more boring.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 5, 2010

Evokes a time when every love affair came with its own soundtrack, and every song seemed to be written only for us.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 5, 2010

Chazelle demonstrates a stunning natural fluency in this outdated filmic grammar. It's as if he's spontaneously started writing gorgeous poetry in a long-dormant language.

| Original Score: 9.1/10 | Nov 4, 2010

Shot in black and white on 16mm in a spontaneous, stripped down style, it manages to be both low key, downtown cool and exuberant at the same time.

| Nov 3, 2010