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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: At once dreamy and acrid, startlingly beautiful and numbingly polemical. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: In Praise of Love sifts the rubble of emotions whose fires have long been banked. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Godard ceased being a voice in the wilderness and became a voice in the wind, howling against demons that refused even to acknowledge his protests. Read more
Marta Barber, Miami Herald: The best indication of the film's pretentiousness comes from recurrent images of a book with blank pages, as if to point out that Godard has nothing to say, but so what? Let's throw in a few images and people will come anyway. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: This is a visually stunning rumination on love, memory, history and the war between art and commerce. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: The beautiful images and solemn words cannot disguise the slack complacency of [Godard's] vision, any more than the gorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can drown out the tinny self-righteousness of his voice. Read more
Misha Berson, Seattle Times: In Praise of Love can bore you to tears at times -- yet leave you in awe. Read more
Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: Godard has always made films that are as thrilling for their ideas and ideals as for the sheer beauty of their images; the difference here is that for the first time in years he's more interested in turning us on than in turning us off. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The trick when watching Godard is to catch the pitch of his poetics, savor the pleasure of his sounds and images, and ponder the historical, philosophical, and ethical issues that intersect with them. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: In Praise of Love leaves a taste as bitter as poison ash. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: A haunting, intense work, intellectually exploratory yet too emotionally acute in its melancholy to be considered merely academic. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Feels like the work of an artist who is simply tired -- of fighting the same fights, of putting the weight of the world on his shoulders, of playing with narrative form. Read more
John Powers, L.A. Weekly: Godard has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love, history, memory, resistance and artistic transcendence. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: The movie's ripe, enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Godard uses his characters -- if that's not too glorified a term -- as art things, mouthpieces, visual motifs, blanks. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: In my own very humble opinion, In Praise of Love lacks even the most fragmented charms I have found in almost all of his previous works. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: What strange confusion besets Jean-Luc Godard? He stumbles through the wreckage of this film like a baffled Lear, seeking to exercise power that is no longer his. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: The work of an exhausted, desiccated talent who can't get out of his own way. Read more
Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle: Shows that Godard is alive and well -- a filmmaker who continues to probe issues and stories that deserve our attention. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Heartbreaking, elegiac, contentious and mordantly funny. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: There's a narrative -- and an argument -- here, but what's moving first, and also finally, is the movie's mournful celebration of its sensuous being. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Godard has created such a hermetic, uncompromising world that only the hardiest cinematic spelunkers are likely to appreciate its depths. Read more