“Certain films are worth returning to periodically, the way a pilgrim would visit a shrine…So when I say that 1963's Contempt is playing in a brand-new print… well, trust me, you want to see this on the biggest screen possible. Few movies have used color and CinemaScope with such aching precision”.
– Ty Burr, The Boston Globe

"Contempt was indifferently received at the time(...); now it seems a masterpiece."
- Andy Klein, LAcitybeat

"Contempt is a perfectly devastating marriage of beauty and loneliness."
- Ella Taylor, LA Weekly

"Jean-Luc Godard's radiant, ambiguous, serenely perverse Contempt, 45 this year, is being revived again, in startling color and elegant, ribbony CinemaScope… and it's beginning to look like one of those movies we can't do without for very long: A CLASSIC!… Maybe we need Contempt because it’s one of the few movies of the anxious past half-century that seems equally at home with history and modernity. It might once have looked conventional, but ITS AUDACITY , we now see, IS BREATHTAKING!"
– Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times

“Godard’s most gorgeously fabricated movie—his most movie-ish movie."
– Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York

“They don't make them like this anymore. Point of fact, they never did; Godard's Contempt is a once-a-century cultural constellation.”
– Nick Pinkerton, The Village Voice