Hollywood Ending

It feels old, tired and given-up-on, maybe three drafts shy of minimal production level.

Funny but perilously slight.

Is comedy a young man’s game, like skateboarding or sex? Writing jokes, creating droll characters – these take ambition, ingenuity...

The overarching joke, of course, is that most movies are so lousy they might as well have been made by blind men anyway. Hollywood Ending is only m...

More than merely stale and dated, Hollywood Ending seems lazy and careless – the structure is loose to the point of crumbling.

Serves as more proof, as if any were needed, that Allen desperately needs to devote more time to polishing his scripts, and less to heedlessly bang...

There’s a mean little Hollywood satire squirreled away within Hollywood Ending, but you have to look hard to find it.

It’s thanks to her (Leoni) that we stay tuned to Mr. Allen’s comic premise long after it has gone from delightfully outrageous to off-p...

Has its satirical charms, but it repeats itself remorselessly, and it has no emotional center. We are so distant from Val that when he gets his sig...

For those always on the lookout for the «funny» Allen, this one definitely has its moments, but too much of the picture is flat, dispiriting and fr...

The best thing about the movie is its premise: It’s a good idea, taken from before Allen’s recent losing streak, but it’s st...

It has all the raw materials for greatness -- a brilliant concept, a sharp cast, the jokes – and still doesn’t come together. You c...

Probably the worst thing you can say about Hollywood Ending is that it has one: it turns out that Mr. Allen wasn’t being ironic after all, he...

He (Allen) seems to have forgotten that comedy is all about timing, letting individual scenes meander – often to accommodate his own stammerin...

I liked the movie without loving it. It’s not great Woody Allen, like «Sweet and Lowdown» or «Bullets Over Broadway," but it’s smart an...

For Woody, it’s looking more and more like the end of his days of whine and neurosis.

Offers slim pickings for viewers, regardless of whether they’re fans of Woody Allen or not. And I’m sure the French will love it.

That’s the ultimate cheat in this pleasant, but trifling affair: Allen has cheated himself out of an actress (Leoni) that could have been Dia...

It might not be good enough to make you laugh consistently, but Hollywood Ending looks good enough to eat.

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