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Mixed or average reviews - based on 37 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 14 Ratings

  • Starring: Téa Leoni, Woody Allen
  • Summary: Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two time Oscar winner turned wash-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. (DreamWorks)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 37
  2. Negative: 6 out of 37
  1. Not perfect, and neither are life or the movies. But you'd have to be blind yourself not to relish its qualities or laugh at its barbs.
  2. 60
    The central conceit is Allen's most amusing since "Bullets Over Broadway."
  3. At one point, Val bemoans how stupid the country is, how dumbed-down everything has become. Allen's new movie is far from dumb, but it has an air of abdication about it.
  4. 30
    No director in the history of moviemaking has expended so much effort in the service of drying up and blowing off the landscape.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 3 out of 5
  1. 3
    Allen takes an interesting enough premise into sitcom territory in Hollywood Ending, an astonishingly boring and vacuous excuse for comedy, full of recycled jokes, plot, ideas, and scenes that ramble on forever with no end. Expand

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