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Scoop (2006)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:12
Rotten:23
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Rehashing old plot lines and characters, Scoop is a tiresome dipper and another disappointing addition to Woody Allen's repertoire.
Theatrical Release:Jul 28, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $10,467,056
Synopsis: Scoop is the new contemporary comedy from writer/director Woody Allen, and is his second consecutive film to be set and shot in London (following Match Point). Scoop stars Mr. Allen, Hugh Jackman,... [More]
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackman, Woody Allen, Romola Garai
Director: Woody Allen
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Reviews for Scoop
Top CriticNestled 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.
10/07/06
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08/17/06
Top CriticWoody -- enough with the one-liners.
08/09/06
Top CriticIt's full of funny lines and clever inventions.
07/28/06
Top CriticScoop is no more than a beguiling trifle. But in the dog days of summer, it's a perk to wallow in inspired silliness.
07/28/06
Top CriticScoop 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.
07/28/06
Top CriticIf 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.
07/28/06
Top CriticScoop is worthwhile viewing for Allen's quips. Just don't expect much of a story.
07/28/06
Top CriticModest and forgettable, it's Woody Lite.
07/28/06
Top CriticScoop, 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.
07/28/06
Top CriticTo 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.
07/28/06
Top CriticScoop feels like a tentative doodle in the general direction of Match Point, only chronologically reversed and more or less amusing.
07/28/06
Top CriticScoop, an amiable romp of lighthearted fun.
07/28/06
Top CriticThe movie is watchable, there's the occasional good one-liner, but it's extremely slight, overly drawn out and never for a moment believable.
07/28/06
Top CriticThings 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.
07/28/06
Top CriticScoop represents a significant step backward. The longer the movie goes on, the more we feel as if we're watching a balloon deflate.
07/28/06
Top CriticA romp of a thing, Scoop won't be mistaken for splendid. Yet for diminutive pleasure, the murder- mystery comedy can rightly be called splendini.
07/28/06
Top CriticOne 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.
07/28/06
Top CriticIt 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.
07/28/06
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