The film is essentially a piece of nostalgia, but it swings along with an insouciance we haven't had from him in a long time.

| Nov 2, 2018

Nestled as it is amid the clamor of the late-summer blockbusters, it's the kind of small pleasure that can make you feel intensely grateful.

Full Review | Oct 7, 2006

Woody -- enough with the one-liners.

Full Review | Aug 9, 2006

It's full of funny lines and clever inventions.

| Jul 28, 2006

Scoop is no more than a beguiling trifle. But in the dog days of summer, it's a perk to wallow in inspired silliness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 28, 2006

Scoop has something Match Point didn't, something that none of Allen's films have had to quite this degree in 10 years. It's really, really funny.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 28, 2006

A bouncy comedy/mystery about a young would-be journalist (Scarlett Johansson) trying to solve a crime.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 28, 2006

If only it were funny instead of just passably amusing, and if only Allen's movies hadn't declined to such a state of rote self-repetition that even passably amusing is tantamount to a compliment.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 28, 2006

Scoop is worthwhile viewing for Allen's quips. Just don't expect much of a story.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 28, 2006

Scoop, a half-baked amalgam of Manhattan Murder Mystery and Curse of the Jade Scorpion -- sadly demonstrates that Allen has lost much of his comic timing both as a director and an actor.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 28, 2006

To see Allen, now 70, trying to reclaim the persona he's been handing off is like watching Willie Mays fall down trying to hit a curve ball during his last season.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 28, 2006

Scoop feels like a tentative doodle in the general direction of Match Point, only chronologically reversed and more or less amusing.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 28, 2006

Scoop, an amiable romp of lighthearted fun.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 28, 2006

It's thin, not really even worth the 90-plus minutes it takes to get from start to finish, but right from the get-go Scoop made me giggle, and I didn't stop until I'd gotten a good five or six steps away from my front door.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 28, 2006

The movie is watchable, there's the occasional good one-liner, but it's extremely slight, overly drawn out and never for a moment believable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 28, 2006

Things don't really get ugly in Scoop, they just feel very familiar very quickly, which doesn't mean it's necessarily bad, just awfully lightweight and terribly unoriginal.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 28, 2006

A romp of a thing, Scoop won't be mistaken for splendid. Yet for diminutive pleasure, the murder- mystery comedy can rightly be called splendini.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 28, 2006

Scoop feels like the leftovers from that [Manhattan Murder Mystery], after they've been strained through The Curse of the Jade Scorpion.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 28, 2006

One form of low-rent showbiz Allen depicts in Scoop is Fleet Street journalism, but it's depicted with none of the witty rancor or intelligence of Evelyn Waugh's 1937 Scoop.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 28, 2006

It saddens me to report -- Scoop is distinctly minor Allen, with less weight to it than one of his old humor doodles in The New Yorker.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 28, 2006