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Scoop
Focus Features
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some sexual content
Starring
Scarlett Johansson,
Hugh Jackman,
Woody Allen,
Ian McShane,
and
Kevin McNally
In Woody Allen's new contemporary comedy, an American journalism student (Johansson) visiting friends in London happens upon the scoop of a lifetime. Along the investigative trail, she finds magic, murder, mystery - and perhaps love, with a British aristocrat (Jackman). (Focus Features)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Woody Allen
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Woody Allen
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 21, 2006
Theatrical: July 28, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
96 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK / USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
83
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
The film is a pleasure that doesn't rank with Allen's best but satisfies far more than most American comedies.

75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
No more than a beguiling trifle. But in the dog days of summer, it's a perk to wallow in inspired silliness.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It's really, really funny.

75
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The collision of sleek melodrama and old Woody Allen stand-up routines is at times oddly effective and at other times just odd.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
It's far from his (Allen) career best, but it's funny and he comes off well.

70
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
An odd but agreeable little comedy.
70
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Mr. Allen's invocation of the "Thin Man" films in an interview makes sense, even if he’s no William Powell and Ms. Johansson is certainly no Myrna Loy. Scoop was made by someone who understands that what makes the "Thin Man" series enduring isn't whodunit and why, but the way Nick and Nora look at each other as they sip their martinis, Asta nipping at their heels.

70
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
A light-hearted if ghostly murder mystery that for all the contemporary English locations feels like a 1930s studio film including a plot that bears little scrutiny. Along with the delectable Johansson, the film offers fun roles for Allen, Hugh Jackman and Ian McShane.

70
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
It's the kind of small pleasure that can make you feel intensely grateful.

63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Johansson is not Allen's new Diane Keaton. She's closer to Mariel Hemingway -- though even Allen couldn't attempt to pull off a romance between his septuagenarian self and a girl in college.

63
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Decidedly minor Woody.

60
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
The rapport between Allen and Johansson (pretending to be father and daughter) is lively, and the variations on the same old jokes are plentiful.

60
Variety
Todd McCarthy
After the accomplished smoothness of "Match Point," it's back to more ragged form in Scoop, despite the almost identical posh settings, and the return of Scarlett Johansson as leading lady.

60
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
The first Allen picture since "Sweet and Lowdown" that doesn't leave a bad odor in its wake.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A companion piece to "Match Point" that suffers all the more in comparison.

50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
A blend of lackluster comedy and lazy plotting, the film feels a lot like bad Hitchcock.

50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
To 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 slow curve during his last
season. Woody may go on to direct many great films, but it's time for him to
retire Alvy Singer.

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Scoop isn't going for complexity. It's a trifle.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
For the first time, Allen's trademark shtick sounds less like the anxious kvetching of an endearingly neurotic New Yorker and more like the ramblings of a tired, elderly man fumbling for the right words.

50
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Rather than providing flashes of one-of-a-kind humor, Allen has reached the point where his critical and movie-going fans are humoring him.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A marginally funny comedy at best, recycles themes, scenes and even lines from Allen's own old movies - like many of Allen's later efforts.

50
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Scoop is distinctly minor Allen, with less weight to it than one of his old humor doodles in The New Yorker.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Cobbled together from memorable parts of Allen's own (not to mention Hitchcock's) classics, Scoop doesn't establish its own identity.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
The differences between the two movies are, first, that Scoop is a comedy and, second, unlike "Match Point," it's not very good, as Allen also returns to pre-Match Point mediocre form.

42
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Tasha Robinson
As it is, the film perpetually teeters on the edge between a functional vehicle and a train wreck, and whenever Allen opens his mouth, he pushes it violently in the latter direction.

40
Austin Chronicle
Brian Clark
Years ago, when Allen's inimitable comedy style still seemed fresh, Scoop may have joined the ranks of "Sleeper" and "Take the Money and Run" as a comedy classic. Today it provides a pleasant diversion.

40
Village Voice
Bill Gallo
So flat, dull, and off form that it seems to have been conceived in a fog. It not only lacks the verve and energy of Allen's best New York–based work, it feels culturally adrift, like some bewildered tourist trying to read a city map held upside down.

40
Time
Richard Corliss
At this late stage in a long career, Allen might consider not trying to make films like the early, funny ones. Instead he should aim simply to match "Match Point."

38
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
When Allen revives his plodding "Manhattan Murder Mystery" as the even duller Scoop, I snore.

38
Premiere
Aaron Hillis
What once was a gifted comic's fluid improvisation is now a doddering old man so embarrassing he's uncomfortable to watch, and the surrogate father-daughter needling he has with Johansson is creepy when you realize Woody the director is shooting her seductively in that skintight bathing suit.

30
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
The direction is lazy and the script thoroughly witless, from its token Bergman references to dialogue that suggests a night in borscht-belt hell.

30
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
This gives nobody, least of all me, any pleasure, but a truth must be faced: Scoop is the worst movie Woody Allen has ever made.

30
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Allen doesn't get us to care much about any of the characters here.

30
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Allen is wretched. It is no kind of pleasure to say so, especially with the memory of the good things he has done; but here he simply plunks front and center the fact that he cannot act and never could.

30
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Scoop is about 50 minutes of plot padded with 40 minutes of Woody being Woody.


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