The joy of this bouncy, brainy Allen outing is how effortlessly he meshes his serious, clearly personal conundrums with the giddy formulas of backstage farce.

| Feb 21, 2018

| Original Score: A- | Sep 7, 2011

The performances, however, are very enjoyable, with first honors going to Chazz Palminteri and Dianne Wiest.

| Aug 12, 2008

A backstage comedy bolstered by healthy shots of prohibition gangster melodrama and romantic entanglements.

Full Review | Jul 31, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2007

No! Don't speak! See it!

| Jun 24, 2006

The best movies Woody Allen made in the '90s by a fairly large margin.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 10, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 1, 2003

Mr. Allen has drawn on autobiographical specifics in other films, but this may be the one in which he speaks most seriously from the heart.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 20, 2003

If not bowled over, we're at least won over.

| Apr 12, 2002

One of Allen's best and most revealing comedies, as much a moral meditation as it is dazzling fun.

Full Review | May 12, 2001

The movie is very funny and, in the way it follows its logic wherever it leads, surprisingly tough.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Woody Allen at his best -- a gem of a Broadway fable with a crafty premise, a raft of brilliant actors at the top of their form and a bouncy, just-for-pleasure attitude.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Has more laughs packed into its exquisitely orchestrated 99 minutes than anything [Allen's] done in nearly 20 years.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

As one-liningly sharp and self-deprecating as you'd expect. If not more so.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The most substantive, accessible -- not to mention the funniest -- film that the prolific writer-director has made in years.

| Jan 1, 2000

Buzzes with classic one-liners, bright performances and off-the-cuff contemplations about love, art and death.

| Jan 1, 2000

An honest attempt at creating farce, albeit one that tweaks the age-old artist's dilemma throughout.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: A- | Oct 21, 1994