Melinda and Melinda simply sits there on screen, inert, flat, unmoving (in both senses of the word).

| Feb 15, 2021

Great premise, but talky dramedy doesn't deliver.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 26, 2010

While the main lure for audiences--Will Ferrell--is basically forgettable, Allen does compose one fascinating and witty look at the human mind and its own ability to depict events through our own sub-conscious preference.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 29, 2009

Reminds us there is little to divide comedy from tragedy, and that neither comes exclusively. After all, the tears of sorrow and the tears of joy both come from the same place, and dampen a tissue with equal intensity.

| Oct 18, 2008

Mitchell, in her dual role, gives a breakout performance (two of them, in fact).

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

A movie just shouldn't feel like homework. And with the constant shift in stories and repeatedly reinvented characters, unless you're in the mood for taking notes, you're going to feel like you're invited to rehearsals, rather than the finished product.

Full Review | May 28, 2007

A stilted, self-aware film in which the characters seem to be competing to see who can be the most shallow and unsympathetic.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 21, 2006

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| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 3, 2006

All the inner workings of "Melinda and Melinda" show that Allen has finally risen above, returned to his position as a fine filmmaker.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 29, 2006

Neither version of Melinda, despite Mitchellâ(TM)s game try at making them distinctive beyond their different hairdos, is funny or tragic enough to fully engage us; thereâ(TM)s no opportunity for an audience to be moved.

Full Review | May 12, 2006

It has great performances, snappy one-liners and a likeably tricksy structure, all wrapped up in an affirmative antidote to life's daunting complexities. Welcome back, Woody.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Allen presents the side-by-side stories as if to compare the comic and tragic views of experience, and it might work but for the fact that the two [playwrights] come up with dissimilar plots featuring different characters played mostly by different actors

| Jan 17, 2006

One story, two versions, each from Woody Allen, so you know you're in for it.

| Original Score: B | Nov 18, 2005

The comic side isn't really that comic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2005

A welcome return to form from a really talented guy who's been churning out cinematic junk for the past few years.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2005

(...) aburrida, ni lo suficientemente cómica, ni lo suficientemente dramática...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 17, 2005

finding the plot "gimmick" seems to exhaust all of Allen's creativity

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 7, 2005

Schizophrenic but mildly diverting, with a revelatory performance by Radha Mitchell in the lead(s).

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 21, 2005

Happy proof that news of Allen's artistic death has been much exaggerated.

| May 27, 2005

Overcoming the handicap of an overt, writerly device, Allen crafts a warm comedy and a painful tragedy right before our eyes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 21, 2005