A very important romantic comedy but not a favorite of mine

| Apr 7, 2025

Picking out a favorite sequence is about as impossible as selecting a favorite line of dialogue (although I’ve always been partial to the description of the spider that’s “the size of a Buick”).

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 5, 2024

[Allen] is not merely a cinephile-filmmaker as so many are today... he is a filmmaker working from what, in cinema, matters to us now: that every image involves a point of view, that every point of view divides, and that every division is productive.

| Feb 14, 2024

One of the most brilliant and inventive comedies, Woody Allen’s Annie Hall is his most grounded and accomplished work. Bittersweet and hysterical, Annie Hall is one of the most quintessential romantic comedies.

| Jun 8, 2023

A bittersweet love affair... even though it's played for laughs, it contains more truth than most screen romances.

| May 6, 2023

Allen is easily our most literate comic, and may just be our most comic littérateur, as readers of his humorous sketches know. But his new film is painful in three separate ways: as unfunny comedy, poor moviemaking, and embarrassing self-revelation.

| Aug 26, 2022

Annie Hall is bracingly adventuresome and unexpectedly successful, with laughs as satisfying as those in any of Allen's other movies and a whole new staying power.

| Aug 26, 2022

Annie Hall is not only Allen's newest film, it is also his best. It seems the most directly and obviously autobiographical.

| Aug 26, 2022

Annie Hall is a wonderful riposte to the question, "can you translate your own life into a creative medium and not bore the hell out of everybody?"

| Aug 26, 2022

Annie Hall is the best movie we've had about the painful difficulty of love in the sexually polarized '70s. Beyond that, it's a sorrowful reflection on the tension between identity and love in any time or place.

| Aug 26, 2022

Is Woody Allen's commonplace pessimism really inevitable? While pondering this, we can have a good laugh at this black comedy.

| Aug 26, 2022

We have to stop and remind ourselves here that Annie Hall is not only the strangulated murmur of a neurotic urban heart: it is also a movie. Of various and satisfying kinds.

| Aug 26, 2022

No question about it: Annie Hall takes a whack at bright people in conflict. It's very serious about its comedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 26, 2022

Annie Hall, his intensely felt, hilariously realized film about his own love affair with actress Diane Keaton, is Allen's masterpiece and it's a masterpiece among comedy films.

| Aug 26, 2022

The quality of the writing is uniformly high, and the technique, though not entirely original, is brilliant. The result is not only Woody's best film to date but one good enough to stand comparison with the best of other filmmakers.

| Aug 26, 2022

I could easily consume the rest of this space quoting from Annie Hall, which is, the more I think about it, as close to a work of cinematic art as I've seen in ages.

| Aug 26, 2022

Helped by standout cinematographer Gordon Willis, Allen directs with more visual invention than ever. Yes, this is a lofty leap.

| Aug 26, 2022

It is Allen's funniest and most satisfying screen work to date.

| Aug 26, 2022

[The one-liners] go by too often, too fast, leaving the delightfully dazed reviewer -- and viewer -- knowing only that they have seen a superior comedy as well as a superb film

| Aug 26, 2022

Beneath its wit there palpitates a wounded heart; the underlying sadness of the film gives it a dimension and reality that is missing from the more purely absurd and wisecracking Sleeper and Love and Death.

| Aug 26, 2022