The filmmaker walks around gloomily, pontificating on art, society and filmmaking. ... I find a comment in my notebook "Insufferable, I wish I could leave."

| Feb 15, 2021

Godard carefully refuses to allow a story to develop... Godard instead offers a film in flux, so the viewer can enter into it on his or her own terms.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 24, 2019

Godard's montage is as deadly as ever and his palette is seemingly every camera shot that has ever been made.

| May 5, 2010

Godard establishes then subverts his clean, mirrored construction with an array of fascinating ideas that attempt to understand symbiotic but unequal relationships.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 5, 2008

It's glorious. Musical. Amazing and lovely and smart and stylish and fascinating.

| Original Score: A | Jun 21, 2007

This intellectually scintillating think-piece from the eternally relevant Jean-Luc Godard finds Hell and Purgatory right here on our sorry, scorched earth.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 29, 2006

The 73 year-old enfant terrible can still take society to task for failing to recognise that it's our dualities that enrich life rather than any fanciful notions of global unity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Jean-Luc Godard's unfathomable influence on filmmaking has allowed him to enjoy a kind of grandfather clause in recent years.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2005

Jean-Luc Godard returns with another of his extraordinary, heated, agitated essay films.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 5, 2005

Godard attempts to paint modern Europe as Dante's various circles of Hell -- but one fears he has lost 90 percent of the audience in the first 10 minutes

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 30, 2005

Director Jean-Luc Godard, the enfant terrible of the French New Wave, is now in his mid-seventies, yet he's lost none of his desire to challenge an audience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 21, 2005

This film, which awakens your inner philosopher and encourages it to breathe, may not be an experience for everyone; if only it were.

| May 20, 2005

My review summed up in three parts: war is bad, nature is good, and Godard is senile. If this is our music, somebody needs to get a better soundtrack.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 29, 2005

There's plenty here to unpack, most of it regarding modern malaise, and the rewards are proportionate to the amount of work you want to put in.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 28, 2005

Marries a banal message with a directorial technique that's now more sclerotic than innovative.

| Original Score: D- | Apr 26, 2005

Too abstract and lacking in a moral compass to be going anywhere that was real.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 15, 2005

Fractured, dense, opaque and demanding in a way that few other filmmakers would dare to make it.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Apr 1, 2005

An impenetrably ponderous, smarty-pants rumination on war (among other things), the very sort of film for which the term 'artsy-fartsy' was devised.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 18, 2005

It's the first Godard film in years that hasn't made me want to rip out handfuls of my hair and then jump out a window. Does that count as a comeback?

Full Review | Mar 5, 2005

plays out as a series of dry pronouncements from intellectuals. But Godard has not lost his taste for experimentation.

| Mar 4, 2005