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  Review by Andi 💓 ★★★★★ 17

  8-year-old me: Draco Malfoy

  10-year-old me: Edward Cullen

  13-year-old me: Prince Caspian from Narnia

  19-year-old me: Thomas Shelby

  22-year-old me, an intellect: Jef Costello 💦💦😋😍

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Melville's personal connection to the WWII resistance film as gangster tragedy in Army of Shadows makes that one a more affecting gut punch, but this is probably still the purest, most pared-down, and undeniably influential expression of his love of the cutthroat economy of old American crime movies and the hardened, distrustful, unsentimental, and solitary worldview/philosophy that he lived by. Taking the basic narrative structure and cool genre storytelling/design choices he loved as a kid, and honing them to his own specific interest in the lonely criminal-as-craftsman: their post-war isolated male psychology, their sense of spartan stillness and detachment, their meticulous adhering to certain self-imposed rituals and processes, their icy, ruthless calm and over-mannered sense of control even in their…

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  Review by Karsten ★★★★½ 14

  Captivating from the first frame to the last. Am I just saying that because I studied abroad in Paris and miss the thrill of riding a subway? Specifically the Paris subway? Maybe, but a lot of other people seem to really love this so it CAN’T be that!

  (I miss public transit)

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  Review by Nakul ★★★★★ 1

  the coolest movie about loneliness.

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  Review by lauraud ★★★★★ 13

  Jef Costello really should look into the concept of disguise.

  I mean I get it - he looks super dapper and all…

  But a wig or, you know, not wearing his favourite hat all the time really would’ve saved Jef quite a lot of trouble.

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  Review by gal pacino ★★★★ 12

  LOVE when a traditionally handsome man turns out to be a lonely weirdo who spends his days chillin’ in his dilapidated studio apartment with his caged pet when he’s not risking his life at his unconventional job ❤️

   (this guy and also fox mulder)

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  Review by Steven Sheehan ★★★★★ 23

  By choosing Alain Delon for the role of Jef Costello - the brooding, silent assassin who slinks through the murky shadows of the Parisian night - Jean-Pierre Melville highlights the importance of casting. Finding the right person who can disappear into their character and embody their spirit. When the frame can be focused on a face that so clearly tells a story of its own, the symbiotic relationship between director and performer evolves beyond the expectations of standard storytelling.

  Very soon after meeting the assassin, questions about Costello quickly rack up. Where has he come from to arrive at this point in his life as a consummate professional killer for hire? How long has he been living in solitude tending…

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  Review by Holli ★★★★½

  the film made me want to dramatically smoke a cigarette and buy a trenchcoat

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  Review by Will Menaker ★★★★½ 8

  My third movie in a row about how cool it is to kill people for money!

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  Review by Lara Pop ★★★★★ 19

  'I never talk to a man holding a gun.'
  'Is that a rule?'
  'A habit.'

  My god, if Melville movies were a person, they would score 100% on the introvert scale, and I simply love it. Jokes aside, Le Samourai has something I've never in my 20 years been quoted to say: the perfect ending. On every scale: subjective, objective, and everything in between.

  Jef Costello has become the paradigm of the 'refined assassin' in movies. He is an orderly, systematic man who likes structure and the occasional chaos in the system if elicited by him. He likes things done his way and values being in control over all. He seems physically unfazed but his mental order is disrupted when…

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  Review by nickusen 1

  everything in this movie is cool

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  Review by Lucy ★★★★

  everybody was like oh handsome boy let's hate on him