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Deconstructing Harry
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Metascore
61 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critics What's this?

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8.2 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

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  • Starring: Woody Allen
  • Summary: This film revolves around the problems of a New York writer's creative and erotic life.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 19
  3. Negative: 3 out of 19
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ruthe Stein
    100
    Woody Allen's strongest and most mordantly funny movie in years, even if it is also his bleakest.
  2. Empire
    Reviewed by: Angie Errigo
    60
    Unnervingly, it is both hilariously funny and quite disturbing, with Allen's neuroses and fixations manifested in some shocking ugliness and intimately personal revelations we'd rather not have seen confirmed.
  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    30
    Increasingly, reviewing the latest Woody Allen movie has taken on the feel of a dreaded ritual, an annual excursion into careless filmmaking, desperate shtick, and vainglorious misanthropy disguised as cuddly neurosis.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. brentf.
    10
    Fantastic.
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  2. J-Shap
    4
    Simultaneously mean-spirited and self-deprecating, Deconstructing Harry is Allen at his most misanthropic. The problem is that it is, in spite of itself, one of Allen's more interesting and compelling dramas, only taken through such a two-dimensionally sour vein, given its characters. Despite having individual sketches that are actually quite funny, this is the Allen movie where all the bad things people say about him are very true.… Expand
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