Chicago Reader

For all its references to defeat, however, the movie still conveys a sense of rapture with the process of image-making, if not necessarily filmmaking.

Chicago Reader by Ben Sachs

For all its references to defeat, however, the movie still conveys a sense of rapture with the process of image-making, if not necessarily filmmaking.

IndieWire by Eric Kohn

Film Socialism is a weighty, intentionally cryptic product that's easy on the eyes and heavy on the mind.

Los Angeles Times by Mark Olsen

With its rich, layered storytelling, Film Socialisme is, in its broadest sense, about nothing less than the history, present and future of Western civilization, up to and including Internet videos of cats.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

You would be hard-pressed to use the word "accessible" to describe Film Socialisme, and that's exactly the way the master wants it.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Phillips

Those receptive to Godard's sense of humor will find Film Socialisme an elusive yet expansive provocation. Those less receptive will find it elusive, period.

NPR by Mark Jenkins

Film Socialisme, his (Godard) latest intellectual assault, includes grating noise, scruffy camera-phone video and subtitles in fractured "Navajo English."

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

Film Socialisme deflects interpretation but, so long as one subscribes to the William Carlos Williams injunction "No ideas but in things," it's filled with sensuous pleasures.

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

In typical Godardian fashion the film manages to be both strident and elusive, argumentative and opaque.

Time Out by Keith Uhlich

As to the movie's three sections, the best comes first, as an eclectic "cast" of characters (among them philosopher Alain Badiou and musician Patti Smith) pontificate their way around a lavish Mediterranean cruise ship.

San Francisco Chronicle by David Lewis

A mostly incomprehensible, occasionally inspired slice of misanthrope from acclaimed French provocateur Jean-Luc Godard, is as crotchety as its legendary director.

Boxoffice Magazine by Richard Mowe

Devotees and the curious may find it mildly diverting, otherwise this effort is not for the faint-headed.

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

Designed as their own entity, the brief subtitles convey so little that to get the full experience you won't only need to understand Godard's language. You'll also have to speak French.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

This film is an affront. It is incoherent, maddening, deliberately opaque and heedless of the ways in which people watch movies.