Annie Hall (1977)

All Critics (57) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (59) | Rotten (1) | DVD (22)

This is the link between Allen's "earlier, funnier" stuff and more probing works like Interiors and Manhattan. Would that we all could build such masterful bridges.

February 19, 2013 Full Review

Keith Uhlich

Time Out New York

Top Critic

Personal as the story he is telling may be, what separates this film from Allen's own past work and most other recent comedy is its general believability.

February 20, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Richard Schickel

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

A touching and hilarious love story that is Allen's most three-dimensional film to date.

February 19, 2008 Full Review

Joseph McBride

Variety

Top Critic

Visually and structurally it's a mess, but many of the situations are genuinely clever, and there are plenty of memorable gags.

December 13, 2006 Full Review

Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

If you can forgive the fact that it's a ragbag of half-digested intellectual ideas dressed up with trendy intellectual references, you should have a good laugh.

June 24, 2006 Full Review

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Top Critic

There will be discussion about what points in the film coincide with the lives of its two stars, but this, I think, is to detract from and trivialize the achievement of the film, which, at last, puts Woody in the league with the best directors we have.

May 20, 2003

Vincent Canby

New York Times

Top Critic

Annie Hall, for all its vagaries, is a funny, often touching, sometimes astute picture.

February 12, 2013 Full Review

Robert Hatch

The Nation

Woody Allen's classic comedy has one opening scene after another, never seeming to run short of prologues and prefaces.

June 17, 2012 Full Review

Jaime N. Christley

Slant Magazine

Annie Hall expanded Woody Allen's canvas to incorporate real wisdom alongside the punchlines.

March 11, 2012 Full Review

Bryant Frazer

Film Freak Central

Many things mark Annie Hall's place in cinema history, but none of them are the reason you should see this movie. That would be the humour, poignancy and acute observation contained in each and every frame.

February 13, 2012 Full Review

Total Film

In Annie Hall, Allen again writes, directs and stars with Diane Keaton in a remarkable recreation of a spent love affair, which is both sad and hysterically funny.

February 13, 2012 Full Review

Tim Radford

Guardian [UK]

Seeing it again for the first time in many years, I'm struck by how perfect it seems.

February 10, 2012 Full Review

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

A funny film, and it's fresh even today, though it's not a knee-slapper. Rather, it's a shrug-your-shoulder-and-grin kind of movie.

February 6, 2012 Full Review

Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

Probably not the classic film most in dire need of an HD upgrade, but Fox does right by Woody Allen's best-loved neurotic romantic comedy.

February 1, 2012 Full Review

Jaime N. Christley

Slant Magazine

Funny movie about relationships. Not for kids.

December 14, 2010 Full Review | Comments (4)

Charles Cassady

Common Sense Media

Woody Allen's best work.

February 19, 2008 Full Review

Film4

It is unabashedly quirky and peculiar, but as such it has the kind of visionary quality essential to all truly great cinema.

December 7, 2007 Full Review

Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

Lovely performances, and more superb gags in one minute than most movies manage in 90.

February 5, 2007 Full Review

Peter Bradshaw

Guardian [UK]

To represent the male view of romance and feelings through the role of Alvy Singer (played by Woody Allen), writer-director Allen updated the familiar stock character of thje "little man" who's at bay in a complex world--a grown up Charlie Brown.

February 3, 2007 Full Review

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Seminal, hilarious look at contemporary relationships.

December 13, 2006 Full Review

TV Guide's Movie Guide

Woody Allen at his smartest, wittiest, funniest and best.

December 13, 2006 Full Review

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

• 1. Annie Hall: Do you want chocolate milk?
  2. Alvy Singer: What am I your son?
  – Submitted by Jim C (42 days ago)
• 1. Alvy Singer: That was the most fun I've ever had without laughing.
  – Submitted by Diane H (47 days ago)
• 1. Alvy Singer: I don't respond well to mellow. If I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot.
  – Submitted by Diane H (47 days ago)
• 1. Pam: I'm a Rosicrucian myself.
  2. Alvy Singer: Are you?
  3. Pam: Yeah.
  4. Alvy Singer: I can't get with any religion that advertises in Popular Mechanics.
  – Submitted by Diane H (47 days ago)
• 1. Mom Hall: Ann tells us that you've been seeing a psychiatrist for fifteen years.
  2. Alvy Singer: Yes. I'm making excellent progress. Pretty soon when I lie down on his couch, I won't have to wear the lobster bib.
  – Submitted by Diane H (47 days ago)
• 1. Annie Hall: La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
  – Submitted by Dutch E (2 months ago)