Match Point is melodramatic, with the whole story turned on a set of unlikely and ludicrous eventualities, which Allen only too eager to call “luck”. The story makes almost zero sense, and it works neither as a drama-thriller, nor as a romance-comedy.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 2, 2024

"Match Point” is a great movie, which showcases Woody Allen’s ability to offer insights into the human condition. He reveals telling insights about people who need to be brutal in order to protect what they consider important.

| Apr 30, 2023

A glorious ride, with touches of Hitchcock, Patricia Highsmith and Woody Allen sprinkled through a film whose panoramic views of contemporary London are the next-best thing to a budget-weekend escape flight.

| May 7, 2020

A mesmerising mix of moral drama and dark humour, with a shock ending to die for.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2020

A finely tuned comeback worth celebrating.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2019

The change of locale from New York to London has done Woody Allen a world of good. As has oft been said, Match Point is his best movie since ... fill in the blank.

| Mar 13, 2018

His first film set in London, it boasts a young, pretty, something-for-everyone cast. As enter-tainment, however, it just slams limply into the net every time.

| Sep 26, 2017

Woody Allen's freshest and most potent film in years manages to be much more than an erotic thriller.

| Aug 9, 2017

...one of the venerable writer/director's more accomplished efforts in this new century.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 7, 2016

| Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2012

This lean, mean, surprisingly sultry thriller about fate, luck, greed and guilt is Woody Allen's best since "Mighty Aphrodite." Plus, it boasts a vintage-Allen metaphor of a bobbling tennis ball that, in a great gotcha scene, becomes a damning motif.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 19, 2010

There's no ground here that Allen hasn't gone over before, but as a treatment of upper crust mores and, eventually, as a thriller, it's compulsively watchable and generally well acted.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 19, 2010

Allen merely regurgitates his shrunken vision in veddy-British padding

| Aug 30, 2009

A limp, dull, and contrived rehash of "Crimes and MisDemeanors"...

| Apr 29, 2009

Just when you were about to give up on Woody Allen, he reinvents himself with a taut tour de force of a film that is unquestionably the best thing he's done in decades.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 28, 2008

... retools the resolution of Crimes and Misdemeanors so its hero, instead of losing his grasp on morality, never even had a hold on morality in the first place.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Sep 12, 2007

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Proves to be an intriguing enough adventure, provided you haven't seen Crimes and Misdemeanors and don't mind rooting for a despicable, amoral philanderer.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 25, 2007

| Original Score: A- | May 7, 2007

Match Point proves that Allen, at 70 years old, is very much still in the game.

| Mar 1, 2007