Le doulos 1962

Critics score:
95 / 100

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Bosley Crowther, New York Times: Mr. Belmondo, as usual, maintains a sinister air, but it has no particular meaning, beyond showing that a crook is a crook is a crook. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Jean-Pierre Melville's existentialized gangster films are one of the glories of the French cinema, American forms played out with European self-consciousness. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A tour de force. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Even back in 1962, Melville made the usual suspects feel new by wrapping them in gorgeous desolation. Read more

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: As good as Melville's setups are, the joys of the movie keep returning to Belmondo, then and now the king of effortless cool. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A cool, classy treat. Read more

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Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: A slippery, gripping cops-and-robbers thriller, full of twists and turns and ending with a tragicomic shootout you'll never forget. Read more

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