The anxiety-ridden New York milieu, the Billie Holiday songs, the shrink jokes are familiar, but this time we see it all played out by a new generation.

| Nov 1, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 30, 2004

Woody Allen tries to extend the shelf-life of his screen persona by hiring a younger, more marketable actor

| Jul 29, 2004

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 12, 2004

None of this adds up to much of a movie; it's more like a filmed hodgepodge of not-fully- thought-out ideas and one-liners and small shards of jaundiced polemic.

| Oct 16, 2003

Curiously, Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci come out better than I imagined after being compelled to play out the movie's sadomasochistic tag line.

| Oct 9, 2003

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 1, 2003

I didn't laugh once.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 27, 2003

But instead of ringing new changes on these themes, he just repeats them off-kilter. The result is like a fax of an oil painting.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Sep 23, 2003

Who knows what sense an American Pie-digging, Woodman-ignorant undergrad might make of the canned rhythms, the trilobite-era one-liners, the awkward declarative dialogue, the Catskills-resort frames of reference, the freshman philosophy.

Full Review | Sep 23, 2003

There is nothing to set this work apart from any number of mediocre Allen films.

Full Review | Sep 21, 2003

But, as a whole, Anything Else comes across as warmed over Woody; an ungainly overlong highlight reel of ideas straight out of the writer/director's past.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 20, 2003

Anything Else isn't just the latest Woody Allen movie; it's also the smallest.

Full Review | Sep 20, 2003

The movie doesn't have the energy to be truly horrible. It's too muted and enervated. But it's a somewhat tedious thing to sit through.

| Sep 19, 2003

Two Woody Allens, two kvetching, whining, neurotic incompetents bungling their lives, being taken advantage of, furiously resenting the universe, which will not notice them until it decides to kill them . . . that's one too many Woody Allens.

Full Review | Sep 19, 2003

It's as locked in ritual as Monday nights at Michael's Pub, Central Park walks or afternoons at Village record stores.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 19, 2003

Half an hour into the movie, the title seems like a taunt. Is there anything else, Woody? Please?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2003

It has taken Allen over 30 years, but he has finally made a movie that's almost unwatchable.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 19, 2003

This anxious comedy wobbles like a retread of Annie Hall.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2003

The movie rambles, sputters and repeats itself for 108 minutes before staggering to an unsatisfying conclusion.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 19, 2003