This is a near-perfect film from François Truffaut...

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 4, 2022

There is something very literary about the film, with dialogue line-readings that often sound like the voiceover narration by Michel Subor.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 2, 2022

A case study in romantic triangulation.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 18, 2014

Truffaut has a light touch for evoking moods, time, place and desires. Its forthright attempt to grasp life sometimes makes it uneven. But, overall, this is a candid entry.

| May 28, 2008

More than 40 years old, François Truffaut's whirling dervish remains an ageless beauty.

Full Review | Dec 12, 2006

With this 1961 film Truffaut comes closest to the spirit and sublimity of his mentor, Jean Renoir, and the result is a masterpiece of the New Wave.

| Dec 12, 2006

Truffaut's third film may not look the masterpiece it seemed 40-odd years ago, but it remains one of his most enjoyable movies.

| Feb 9, 2006

Jules and Jim is sad yet humorous, breathless yet contemplative, universal yet hermetic.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 30, 2005

There is joy in the filmmaking that feels fresh today and felt audacious at the time.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 12, 2004

To put it quickly and crisply, it is charming, exciting and sad.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 16, 2003

A painfully moving story about uncompromising friendship and uncontrollable love.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2001

The films works in ways that touch the heart more than the mind.

| Jan 1, 2000