Band of Outsiders
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8.0 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings

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  1. StewartC.
    Apr 7, 2006
    9
    This film should be coupled with Breathless when spending a night with cinema. Godard pays homage to Hollywood as he weaves and manipulates his narrative (You must watch with a discerning eye and have more than a passing flirtation with cinema in order to understand his work and to what he was reacting against.) . The camera, as in Breathless, is his brush, and the screen's image is his canvas.… Expand
  2. YoonC.
    Sep 14, 2003
    9
    One of Godard's best, a wonderful juggling act of comical, satirical, and romantic elements, Band of Outsiders is a small gem of a movie that reveals new and varying shades of luster with every successive frame. Hardboiled, absurd, violent, goofy, sexy, poetic and so natural. Godard would never be this lighthearted and romantic again.

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Metascore
88 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 9 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 9
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  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    Exhilarating doses of style, imagination, and sheer energy.
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  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Amy Taubin
    80
    Along with Raoul Coutard's radiant cinematography, what makes the film extraordinary is Karina, the pure curves of her face a contradiction to the marionette angularity of her body.
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  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    90
    Easily the most brilliant of the genuflections bestowed on the American gangster movie by the French New Wave.
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