Radio Days is unlike many of his other films, in that rather than have a linear, more conventional narrative, it's a series of short accounts, tied together by a nostalgic affection for the wireless.

| May 12, 2024

A Jewish family in Thirties New York seek airwave escapism in this indulgent but lovely Valentine to the golden age of radio — one of the best Woody Allen films in which he stayed behind the camera.

| Dec 14, 2023

It is wildly imaginative, playful, slightly unsettling and very funny. Not funny in a nice way, however.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 29, 2023

There is still the feeling, despite the pleasures that Radio Days delivers, that Allen's new films now differ, not as cities differ, but as one suburb differs from the next.

| Mar 29, 2023

No film this year has given me as much pleasure. I loved every carefully crafted minute.

| Mar 29, 2023

What the film offers is a stylish child's eye view of a half forgotten world, acted out with the kind of comic dedication that [Woody Allen's] players seem to find so easy under his direction.

| Mar 28, 2023

Radio Days is ephemeral; it is also pure, simple pleasure. What could be more deliciously intelligent?

| Mar 28, 2023

The genius of it is to define and encapsulate a vanished age (if not of innocence, at least of very different values from today's), the memory of which is universal.

| Mar 28, 2023

A lovely daydream of a film.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 12, 2022

It plays as a perfectly amiable nostalgic pastiche, and only afterward do you flesh it out.

| Original Score: B | Aug 31, 2022

Allen's film is both tribute and still relevant criticism, aching for times gone by while acknowledging that this medium of easy entertainment comes with a price.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 4, 2020

A light, complacent, and evocative comedy whose vision leaves us with a sweet aftertaste. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jun 16, 2020

It is clever and funny for sure, but it is also remarkably sweet with a deep melancholic longing: for childhood, for old-fashioned entertainment, and most of all for family.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 11, 2020

Actors always perform their best for Woody Allen.

| Jul 25, 2019

[A] ridiculously entertaining nostalgia exercise...Radio Days emerged from a highly fertile period for [Woody] Allen, and the film bubbles with creativity and Allen hallmarks. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 21, 2014

Vastly entertaining and in moments even magical, Radio Days is a warmly nostalgic but decidedly unsentimental portrait of Wood Allen's childhood in WWII, when radio was the primary medium of communication.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 27, 2010

It's a wonderfully realized film, one of Woody's best, that has slipped under the radar.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 25, 2009

Although lacking the bite and depth of his best work, Radio Days is one of Woody Allen's most purely entertaining pictures.

| Mar 26, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 2, 2007

A perfect mixture of laughs and heartbreak, it's one of the ones I can see over and over again.

| Aug 25, 2007