75
Metascore
28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasAs in all Godard’s best work, precise meaning is subsumed in an exhilarating tide of sound and light, impish provocations and inspired philosophizing.
- 100Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneSlant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneCinema is a vernacular of domination, and quaking with revelations both formal and personal, the film attests that Godard has spent his career apologizing for it.
- 90The DissolveDavid EhrlichThe DissolveDavid EhrlichFor all of its provocatively cerebral ideas, the prevailing truth is that Goodbye To Language is actually a great deal of fun—not just to think about, but also to experience. It’s “Godard: The Ride.”
- 90The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottIt is baffling and beautiful, a flurry of musical and literary snippets arrayed in counterpoint to a series of brilliantly colored and hauntingly evocative pictures.
- 80Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichIt’s nice to see this great filmmaker sculpting something that feels genuinely revelatory. That’s not to say that the 3-D Goodbye to Language is always an easy sit.
- 75The PlaylistOliver LytteltonThe PlaylistOliver LytteltonGodard's full length take on 3D is bold, brilliant and exactly what the format needed — a iconoclast taking it and making his own, and almost every time he frames a shot in three dimensions, from opening credits to the final moments, there's something attention-grabbing going on.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt is an uncompromising and exasperating 70-minute cine-collage placed before us on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, composed of fragments of ideas, shards of disillusionment.
- 60CineVueBen NicholsonCineVueBen NicholsonGodard is not willing to sit back in his dotage but strives to push at the boundaries of the medium, resulting in this rich, witty and thoroughly baffling provocation. Less of a narrative or a thesis than an esoteric patchwork visual essay condemning our fallen society, it's intent on being as abrasive as possible in almost every way.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyAs usual, there are only fragments of thoughts, nothing is developed, and it will be left only to the tiny band of die-hard Godardians to try to make any meaningful sense of the disparate fragments stitched together here.