The last of four films shot for Allen by cinematographer Sven Nyqvist, Celebrity looks gorgeous in rich monochromatic photography that lends all the pretty faces onscreen a kind of candid tabloid reality.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 4, 2022

There are few insights into what makes a celebrity or why people are drawn to them in this movie. But there is one about the writer/director, himself. Believe in your own myth too long, [and]people are going to start to realize that it isn't real.

| Original Score: C | Mar 25, 2020

Unfortunately in Celebrity, Woody Allen's line of attack is compromised by his being at least half in love with the very glitterati he sets out to savage.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 20, 2019

Indicative of a time when Allen had a degree of vivacity and ingenuity in his work before it went increasingly down the turgid, tourist-porn route in Europe.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2018

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

technically, the b/w film is impressive, but the tale is shallow and diffuse and has little to say about our media- saturated life and obsession with fame.

| Original Score: C | Jun 14, 2011

"Celebrity" is about the tiny planets revolving around Hollywood's many suns, trying to absorb some heat. It's a cold universe nonetheless.

| Original Score: B | Aug 13, 2007

Allen is something of a heartless director with actors, to the extent that it is somewhat bewildering that so many actors profess to want to work with him.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 16, 2006

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: C- | Apr 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 13, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 8, 2002

The movie is filmed in black-and-white, but it's a far cry from his love poems Manhattan and Broadway Danny Rose. Celebrity is smaller, more cramped.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 22, 2002

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2002

Pinpoints the excessive role of celebrities in American culture.

| Feb 28, 2002

Nothing that hasn't been said a million times before.

| Original Score: short | Apr 19, 2001

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 27, 2001

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 1, 2001

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 1, 2000