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

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

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

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

Annie Hall is, without a doubt, Woody Allen's funniest and most fully realized motion picture to date, a "now" film for today's sophisticates.

| Aug 25, 2022

While the outlines of Annie Hall are simply structured to permit such inventions without obtrusion, its quality is really established by the painful level of honesty in it.

| Aug 25, 2022

The presence of the marvelously talented Diane Keaton, in the title role, helps make Annie Hall so successful. She is such a perfect contrast to Allen, the ideal Galatea to his Pygmalion.

| Aug 25, 2022

Autobiographical ? No matter. Allen is in superior form , tossing absurd insights and profound nonsense like tree blossoms in the spring wind.

| Aug 25, 2022

A sense of humour is often said to be indicated by the ability to laugh at oneself. By this token, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, who appear in Annie Hall, have a very strong sense of humour indeed.

| Aug 25, 2022

Naturally, the jokes come thick and fast, but they spring from an inner pain... It is surely no contradiction therefore to suggest that this hilarious film is also Woody Allen's most serious offering to date.

| Aug 25, 2022

Woody Allen is a man whose hopelessness is in direct relation to his hilarity. Fortunately for all of us, he serves such generous portions.

| Aug 25, 2022

La-de-da! And la-de-da again! If you miss Woody Allen's new film, you'll miss this catchphrase which is in for a certain vogue, and you'll also miss the year's most poignant comedy.

| Aug 25, 2022

[Woody Allen] has miraculously made his most personal film his funniest.

| Feb 6, 2020

Annie Hall is as good as it is because its comedy is always on the brink of the minor tragedies of real life and love.

| Feb 4, 2020

A soft, fuzzy, mildly diverting letdown.

| May 5, 2017

Woody Allen fans will buy it 100%. Never before has the diminutive comedian been so urbane, so open - so funny. And with lovely Diane Keaton as consort, it becomes well-nigh irresistible (especially if you find Keaton as well-nigh irresistible as I do).

| Apr 20, 2017