New York Times
"...One of the more delightful surprises....A very funny, jaunty movie..." 09/26/1981 p.12Entertainment Weekly
"...Unpredictably plotted and eccentrically edited; it's a wry meditation on male camaraderie..." 04/26/2002 p.125 Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "Helping pave the way for the French New Wave was this charming gangster film from Jean-Pierre Melville..." 01/01/2007 p.137 Uncut
4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's a terrific character study, not only of the chivalrous gangster planning a casino heist, but of Paris." 01/01/2007 p.146 Sight and Sound
"The director tackles his B-movie yarn with plenty of lyricism, throwing in a poetic voiceover and evocative shots of Montmartre." 01/01/2007 p.86-87 San Francisco Examiner 8 of 10
...Bob le Flambeur remains, even for moviegoers normally averse to reading subtitles or viewing black-and-white classics, a great deal of fun... The movie can be enjoyed on its own terms, for its own merits, as a street-smart comedy of manners, and as a slyly stylized evocation of underworld life in post-World War II Paris. Call it pulp fiction elevated to high art by a romantic sensibility, and you won't be far off the mark. - Joe Leydon
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