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

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

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

Hardly a director alive possesses Godard's eye for dynamic, inner-lit old-masterly compositions.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 24, 2005

Jean-Luc Godard has had a tendency to be combative and obscure. He's a lot calmer and steadier in his latest feature.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 28, 2005

A lumpy mix of real-life and fictional events that shows age hasn't diminished the famed filmmaker's zeal to experiment.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 28, 2005

It will mean much more to those familiar with his work. But those moviegoers will experience intense pleasure in watching a great innovator at a personal high point.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 27, 2005

For those willing to ponder, this is a worthy feast of words and images.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 21, 2005

An intensely felt, quietly beautiful elegy to 20th-century Europe -- to the Europe of wars -- and to the human need to create enemies.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 30, 2004

A film of flowing, redemptive beauty and poetry, at once immediate yet classic in its simplicity of form.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 3, 2004

Mr. Godard hasn't earned the right to take the mantle of Jewishness upon himself as if it were some sort of Halloween mask.

| Dec 2, 2004

I find [Godard's] later work to be tediously self-important and politically obvious.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 29, 2004

[Jean-Luc Godard] may be nearly 74, but this three-part meditation, inspired by Dante's Inferno, is the work of someone with fresh, young ideas.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2004

Notre Musique's wistful mischief and gentle provocations will keep mind and soul humming long after you've carried them out of the darkened theater.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 23, 2004

Too touchy-feely for some hardcore Godardians, Notre Musique is the most lucid of the master's recent films.

Full Review | Nov 23, 2004

Godard locates the heart of the world in that divide, that moral schism. The movie then asks, without answering, Can it ever be repaired?

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 17, 2004

Structured like the Divine Comedy, Jean-Luc Godard's new film is a journey through hell and purgatory in search of a paradise.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2004

Godard forces us to see the recognizable anew, opening our minds (our music) with juxtapositions of history.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 1, 2004