Jean-Pierre Melville presents a murky criminal underworld in his gangland classic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2017

It's a moody, ruminative lowlife crime drama winding up with as many corpses on the floor as Hamlet, and pungent with the sweaty maleness of Melville's tough-guy pictures.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 11, 2017

Some amazing moments, but something of a drag all told.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 10, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Le Doulos roots itself in traditional noir themes of providence, of loyalty and betrayal, of male codes of honor, and ultimately of man's inability to escape his lot in life.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 6, 2008

Does it matter that what we're seeing is not necessarily what we're getting? Not at all. The movie is entirely about how it looks and feels.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 15, 2008

As good as Melville's setups are, the joys of the movie keep returning to Belmondo, then and now the king of effortless cool.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 26, 2007

A tour de force.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 7, 2007

Even back in 1962, Melville made the usual suspects feel new by wrapping them in gorgeous desolation.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 18, 2007

A slippery, gripping cops-and-robbers thriller, full of twists and turns and ending with a tragicomic shootout you'll never forget.

Full Review | Jun 27, 2007

Mr. Belmondo, as usual, maintains a sinister air, but it has no particular meaning, beyond showing that a crook is a crook is a crook.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 9, 2005

It is one of the director's very best films.

| Mar 10, 2003

Jean-Pierre Melville's existentialized gangster films are one of the glories of the French cinema, American forms played out with European self-consciousness.

| Jan 1, 2000