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OFCS Rating: 72% Fresh |
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| "Allen develops characters and situations here as if he had jotted the major points down on the back of an envelope and then used the envelope as his shooting script. The movie is so thin-textured it's ludicrous." |
| Blogcritics.org |
| Alan Dale |
| "A movie with no heart or soul." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Betty Jo Tucker |
9/10 | "An unexpected and startlingly unsavory story, and a welcome return to thoughtful, well-crafted filmmaking for Woody Allen." |
| Freeze Dried Movies |
| Brian Juergens |
B+ | "Match Point provides just enough reason to fall in love with Woody Allen again, with the auteur creating cracking good drama for the first time in a very long time" |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
A- | "Thank goodness Allen has left New York and left himself out of the script." |
| AboutFilm.com |
| Carlo Cavagna |
4.5/5 | "Allen's best work since 1986's Hannah and Her Sisters." |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Christopher Null |
| "Maybe it's just luck that the women in Allen's latest film -- irrational, demanding, and voluble -- come to represent the protagonist's lack of "meaning."
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| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
2.5/4 | "A nice change of pace from Allen until, that is, about three-quarters of the way in when the pace changes too awkwardly and serves the film its first double fault." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| David N. Butterworth |
A- | "This solid, well-observed and cerebral presentation signifies that Woody is back in full stride after
some recent so-so works." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
3/4 | "Allen's strongest and most self-assured dramatic feature in over a decade. Welcome back, Woody! You've been missed." |
| DustinPutman.com |
| Dustin Putman |
4/5 | "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." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
B+ | "A delicious little drama." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
3.5/4 | "Probably Woody's best film since Hannah and Her Sisters" |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
| "Allen merely regurgitates his shrunken vision in veddy-British padding" |
| CinePassion |
| Fernando F. Croce |
4/4 | "...thoroughly engrossing and provocatively taut...keenly sophisticated, wryly humorous and mischievous...one of Allen’s best films in recent memory." |
| Movie Eye |
| Frank Ochieng |
C | "While not as awful as some of Allen's flubs, this film is one of those instances in which the cinematic ball doesn't quite make it over the net." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
2/5 | "Hard to believe that someone as seasoned and creative as Woody Allen would have to resort to the cliche -- a gun -- to dramatically solve the predicament of his antihero." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
B | "A surprising return to form for the venerated director, recalling (if not matching) his best work from the 80's." |
| Modern Fabulousity |
| Gabriel Shanks |
3.5/4 | "For the first time in a long time, we understand why Allen is considered a master. If this is what filming in London does for him, maybe he should move there permanently." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3/5 | "Contains enough surprises to keep it interesting and enough emotional and existential hand-wringing to make it worth talking about once the credits have rolled." |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
| "Lugubriously slow and inert, Match Point simply drags without those customary Woody Allen one-liners . . ." |
| SA Movie & DVD Magazine |
| James O'Ehley |
3/4 | "There's no ground here that Allen hasn't gone over before, but...as a thriller, it's compulsively watchable and generally well acted" |
| Perihelion Journal |
| Jay Antani |
9/10 | "Its conceit that much of life is chalked up to luck is simple, almost throwaway, but it's illustrated here with a veteran's pace -- patient yet efficient." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
8/10 | "The only thing that I kept thinking through this film’s first half hour was how I couldn’t believe that I was actually watching a 'Woody Allen movie'." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
1/5 | "Allen fans would be well advised to stay away lest their idea of Allen's genius become ever so slightly dented." |
| FilmFocus |
| Joe Utichi |
A- | "it's a welcome change to what had become a tired formula" |
| Old School Reviews |
| John A. Nesbit |
| "Match Point is a tremendously unsettling picture. It's not a net cord, but a clean winner.
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| In the Dark |
| Jonathan F. Richards |
3/4 | "Match Point is a clever diabolical yarn that builds tension and creates suspense as well as even the best of Hitchcock." |
| Bangitout.com |
| Jordan Hiller |
3.5/5 | "Allen back in shape since a really long time" |
| Movies for the Masses |
| Joseph Proimakis |
2.5/5 | "There are few things more boring than a man enjoying the fruits of greater success than he himself has achieved in his passive, goal-free life, except watching that same man obsess over the obviously beautiful and unattainable Scarlett Johansson." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
2/4 | "Woody's most baldly revealing picture, a reprehensible and misogynist pseudo-thriller that is also aesthetically polished and compulsively watchable." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Keith Uhlich |
3.5/4 | "An engrossing and thought-provoking movie that even Woody haters might enjoy." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
B+ | "If Woody has paid homage to Bergman and Fellini in the past, this is his homage to Hitchcock...features a craftily written killer ending" |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
2/4 | "This thin chronicle of bad behavior among the rich and self-obsessed is above all painfully derivative, borrowing wholesale from Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and echoes Allen's own Crimes and Misdemeanors." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
A | "Match Point is not a declaration of the value of firm belief--it denounces theodicy, after all--but a caution against the outright rejection of it." |
| Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema |
| Mark Pfeiffer |
7/10 | "Allen probably regretted not doing more with the story in CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS and here he does much more with it, but the previous telling was better." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
4/4 | "Gripping and entertaining as well as very well-made" |
| Movie Habit |
| Marty Mapes |
3/4 | "Often when something is different from the norm, that difference is mistaken as greatness. Such is the case with Woody Allen's London-set thriller." |
| TheMovieReport.com |
| Michael Dequina |
4/4 | "If you're a fan, then put this on your must-see list. If you've gotten away from Allen's movies in recent years, now is the time to come back." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
C+ | "A dreary regurgitation of prior (better) Allen efforts dressed up in a stolid British suit." |
| Lessons of Darkness |
| Nick Schager |
5/5 | "Aos 70 anos de idade e já no seu 34º filme, Allen ainda é capaz de realizar um trabalho cheio de energia e (o mais fascinante) não hesita em reinventar-se." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
1/5 | "Same shtick, different accents." |
| Film Threat |
| Phil Hall |
3.5/5 | "If you can get past the film's few potholes, it has the power to really make you squirm." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
B | "Not one of Allen's best films, but it is somewhat different than most." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
7/10 | "An entertaining film noir about a grasping tennis star who spins a deadly wheel of fate." |
| Monsters and Critics |
| Ron Wilkinson |
2.5/5 | "Woody Allen's treatise on luck vs. good never approaches the net much less produces an ace." |
| JWR |
| S. James Wegg |
3.5/4 | "(Allen) rediscovers many filmmaking traits I thought he'd lost for good." |
| Charlotte Weekly |
| Sean O'Connell |
D | "Lacks precisely what is, at least arguably, the most haunting element in [Crimes and Misdemeanors]: its sense of genuinely conflicted existential drama." |
| Decent Films Guide |
| Steven D. Greydanus |
10/10 | "Woody Allen's chilling, riveting, mind-teasing psychological thriller is not only his best film in years - but also one of the best movies of 2005!" |
| Modamag.com |
| Susan Granger |
3/4 | "Another decent millennial fable about class, the vicissitudes of fate, the reptilian hunger of infiltrating the social strata, and living with ghosts." |
| Film Freak Central |
| Walter Chaw |
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OFCS Rating: 72% Fresh |
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