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 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

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

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

"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

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

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Chazelle demonstrates a stunning natural fluency in this outdated filmic grammar.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

A magical amalgam of Jean-Luc Godard, Miles Davis, Morris Engel and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

Full Review | Nov 3, 2010

The movie is at once fresh and retro, a casual three-mumblechord affair glamorized by its exuberant nostalgia for pop bop of the late '50s and the then-new wave excitement of Shadows and Breathless.

| Nov 2, 2010

The film's visual splendor is undercut by the nagging realization that it's in the service of a tepid snapshot of happy-go-ditzy ciphers.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 31, 2010