Match Point (2005)
77 %
Reviews Counted: 205 Fresh: 158 Rotten:47 Average Rating: 7.2/10
Consensus:
Woody Allen’s sharpest film in years, Match Point is a taut, philosophical thriller about class and infidelity.
Runtime: 2 hrs 40 mins
Theatrical Release: Dec 28, 2005 Limited
Box Office: $23,089,926
Synopsis: "The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net, and for a split second it can either go... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Jonathan Rhys-Myers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Brian Cox
Director: Woody Allen
Screenwriter: Woody Allen
Producer: Lucy Darwin, Helen Robin, Gareth Wiley
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Gioacchino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi
Screenwriter: Woody Allen
Producer: Lucy Darwin, Helen Robin, Gareth Wiley
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Gioacchino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi
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Reviews
Just when you were about to give up on Woody Allen, he reinvents himself with a taut tour de force of a film that is unquestionably the best thing he's done in decades.
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02/28/08
... retools the resolution of Crimes and Misdemeanors so its hero, instead of losing his grasp on morality, never even had a hold on morality in the first place.
09/12/07
Proves to be an intriguing enough adventure, provided you haven't seen Crimes and Misdemeanors and don't mind rooting for a despicable, amoral philanderer.
05/25/07
Match Point proves that Allen, at 70 years old, is very much still in the game.
03/01/07
The acting is as impeccable as Remi Adefarasin's lensing is gorgeous.
01/19/07
This is Allen at his best. And with three Oscars at home already, and seventeen other nominations, that is saying a lot.
12/13/06
What makes Match Point, a coolly deliberate murder mystery from Woody Allen, so startling is that it feels as if the director himself has been done away with.
11/04/06
A filmmaker out of touch with his own neuroses, making a final bid for recognition by exacerbating lives beyond his reach.
10/30/06
The plotting lacks a necessary sense of tragic propulsion; it feels dutifully schematic, its ironies polite and tidy when they should be bitter and merciless.
09/28/06
By developing his characters so superficially, Allen makes it impossible to feel the depth of the horror that he is clearly aiming for.
09/27/06
There's no ground here that Allen hasn't gone over before, but...as a thriller, it's compulsively watchable and generally well acted
08/27/06
Woody Allen regresa a su mejor forma con un oscuro drama sobre la ambición, el deseo, la obsesión, y el papel que juega la suerte en el destino de las personas.
06/18/06
It all looks suspiciously like the kind of movie Allen used to make fun of 30 years ago.
05/12/06
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