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Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Visually sublime and intellectually dense, this is one of the extremely rare movies that prove cinema can be as complex and profound as the very greatest art works in any form.
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80
Recognizably Godard with its playfulness and wordplays, but deeply human at the same time.
80
Too touchy-feely for some hardcore Godardians, Notre Musique is the most lucid of the master's recent films.
50
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
Notre Musique is a cry against war and man's inherent needs for tribalism and violence, a position that wouldn't start a good argument in a college cafeteria.
80
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
For one of the first times in his career Jean-Luc Godard has elected not to hector and harass his audience, and it seems to have paid off.
50
A sophomore film major would be lucky to get a passing grade with such material.
70
Alternately accessible and obscure, the film is almost too rich to digest at one sitting, but even if experiencing this remarkable films means latching onto just a few of its myriad ideas, it's still a richly rewarding encounter.
80
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
Mr. Godard treads on dangerous ground by linking the historical suffering of Jews and the Palestinians, but his sympathy for both people is so manifest, his sense of history so deep, that the film defies reductive readings.
83
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
Notre Musique is Godard's post-9/11 statement, a meditation on how war emerges from the eternal, and hypocritical, duality of human perception -- the sense that it's always ''the other'' who dies.
75
It's a long way from the carefree days of "Breathless" and "Band of Outsiders," but then the world has changed since Godard made those movies 40 years ago.