Jean-Luc Godard takes a steely knife to Stephen Spielberg, who he detests with an obvious fury. Love isn't all that Godard is praising.

| Original Score: FIVE STARS | Sep 11, 2024

Éloge de l'Amour has the internal intricacy, precision, and above all, the tenderness of a late Beethoven chamber work.

| Oct 8, 2019

All the beauty does not make the film even half as profound as it so obviously strives to be.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 28, 2008

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

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

Love, in Godard's case, is indistinguishable from cinema and thus he sees the growing capitalist machine as a threat to both.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 23, 2005

Free-associative, unreasonable and stubborn, unresolved, and elegiac in tone, In Praise of Love is a great meditation on memory, aging, and love.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 5, 2004

What keeps me coming back to a filmmaker I never warmed up to, is that I find the rascal irresistible.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 4, 2003

Ultimately, though, In Praise of Love is about themes, about the anti-Hollywood sentiment that Godard feels so passionately about, and this is where the film begins to crumble.

| Original Score: 53/100 | Aug 27, 2003

Godard has created such a hermetic, uncompromising world that only the hardiest cinematic spelunkers are likely to appreciate its depths.

| Jun 20, 2003

It's the intellectual ride of your life, as far as moviegoing goes.

Full Review | Jun 20, 2003

A haunting, intense work, intellectually exploratory yet too emotionally acute in its melancholy to be considered merely academic.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 14, 2003

The movie's ripe, enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 28, 2003

It's intriguing, visually arresting and utterly impenetrable!

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 6, 2003

When a character comments 'too many changes are in the air that lack a means of expression,' one senses that Godard, at 72, is still struggling to communicate those changes through the medium of film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 6, 2003

An unsuccessful attempt at a movie of ideas.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 24, 2003

The 70-year-old Godard has become, to judge from In Praise of Love, the sort of bitter old crank who sits behind his light meter and harangues the supposed injustices of the artistic world-at-large without doing all that much to correct them.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 19, 2003

Gone are the days of an exciting existentialist movie mastermind who once knew how to stroke the consciousness of the enthusiastically challenged, adventurous moviegoer.

| Original Score: D- | Jan 15, 2003

Gives the impression of a man who has lost his will to make movies, and even to go on living, a sentiment difficult to empathize with without likewise giving up on life.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Godard's utterly nonlinear drama explores history and memory, old age and youth, love and art, action and reaction, life and existence, and possibly even more ideas than I was unable to mine in one exhaustive viewing.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 6, 2002