All hail Woody Allen, madcap of mirth, genius of comedy and multifaceted talent responsible for writing, directing, performing and arranging the music for Sleeper, easily one of the best film comedies of the year.

| Sep 27, 2023

It's a small classic.

| Feb 10, 2022

Here, it's evident just how great of a comedy team Allen and Keaton make.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 28, 2021

A great example of Allen at his entertaining best.

| Mar 6, 2020

Woody Allen's latest, Sleeper, is his best film to date.

| Jan 27, 2020

Rest assured that Allen makes the most of the potentially vast comedy vistas the premise permits.

| Dec 17, 2019

[Allen] has provided us with our comedy of the year and enabled us to call it hilarious without a quibble or a hesitation -- just with bellylaughs and guffaws.

| Oct 2, 2019

These days, comedy beggars can't be choosers. Woody Allen is about all we've got. And Woody, please stay healthy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 18, 2013

Allen's investigation of a "cosmic screwing" registers Kubrickian sci-fi

| Nov 26, 2009

Like most of Allen's movies, this one is better than the box-office receipts would indicate; it still looks good many years after it was shot.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 4, 2007

As a stand-up routine it's a scream.

| Jun 4, 2007

The mild comedy antics are zany and the sci-fi parody is mostly pleasant.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 2, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 5, 2006

Plenty of one-liners, and it has the best banana-skin joke in film history.

| Feb 9, 2006

Chaos is a bullet that rips through "Sleeper," which helps to make it the silly, freakish hit that it is.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 18, 2005

Pound for pound and minute for minute, Sleeper may just have more laughs in it than any other Woody Allen movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 19, 2005

The film is loaded with throwaway literacy and broad slapstick, and while it fumbles the end, the parade of verbal and visual amusement is pleasant as long as it lasts.

| May 20, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2004

Sleeper is the closest Allen has come to classic slapstick-and-chase comedy, and he's good at it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 23, 2004