Creed II
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Homecoming
Log in with Facebook
OR
By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Policies, and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango.
Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password.
Critics Consensus: A gleefully entertaining backstage comedy, Bullets Over Broadway features some of Woody Allen's sharpest, most inspired late-period writing and direction.
Critic Consensus: A gleefully entertaining backstage comedy, Bullets Over Broadway features some of Woody Allen's sharpest, most inspired late-period writing and direction.
All Critics (58) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (56) | Rotten (2) | DVD (1)
The joy of this bouncy, brainy Allen outing is how effortlessly he meshes his serious, clearly personal conundrums with the giddy formulas of backstage farce.
The performances, however, are very enjoyable, with first honors going to Chazz Palminteri and Dianne Wiest.
A backstage comedy bolstered by healthy shots of prohibition gangster melodrama and romantic entanglements.
No! Don't speak! See it!
Mr. Allen has drawn on autobiographical specifics in other films, but this may be the one in which he speaks most seriously from the heart.
If not bowled over, we're at least won over.
One of Woody Allen's flat-out funniest movies.
Dianne Wiest elevates even the most esoteric argument in the film to a level of sublime entertainment.
A sharp, fast, laugh-out-loud comedy.
[A] deft period farce, his most enjoyable movie in years.
Woody Allen at his finest. Wiest is sensational.
Overrated.
One of the top 5 of Allen's extensive repertoire, a gem that's sparkle leaves one feeling smarter and more erudite, rides the old show within a show conceit. And while loaded with excellent performances, Cusack, as Allen's surrogate, really shines simply for not aping Allen's shade as so many have done. Repeat viewings are definitely in order.
Super Reviewer
"Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last known copy of Shakespeare's plays or some anonymous human being. What would you do?" In 1920s New York, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced.
Woody's first indie venture outside of studio affiliations just so happens to be his best film of the 90s.
BULLETS OVER BROADWAY is filled with good, but overrated performances. It's surprisingly slow-paced (and I say surprisingly, because nobody expects a crime comedy to be this slow) and, at only 100 minutes, it feels so long. On the bright side, the art direction and costume design are superb. Not a great Woody Allen flick, but his work in BOB is pretty decent.
View All Quotes
View All