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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.
A touching and hilarious love story that is Allen's most three-dimensional film to date.
Visually and structurally it's a mess, but many of the situations are genuinely clever, and there are plenty of memorable gags.
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.
Watching it again, 25 years after its April 1977 premiere, I am astonished by how scene after scene has an instant familiarity.
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.
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.
Funny movie about relationships. Not for kids.
Lovely performances, and more superb gags in one minute than most movies manage in 90.
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.
Seminal, hilarious look at contemporary relationships.
Woody Allen at his smartest, wittiest, funniest and best.
More jokes per frame than any other film I've seen.
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.
Lifelong anhedonia may have robbed Allen of happiness, but at least it gave him some material.
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