Annie Hall: Critic Reviews

There will be discussion about what points in the film coincide with the lives of its two stars, but this, I think, is to detract from and trivialize the achievement of the film, which, at last, puts Woody in the league with the best directors we have.

Lovely performances, and more superb gags in one minute than most movies manage in 90.

Watching it again, 25 years after its April 1977 premiere, I am astonished by how scene after scene has an instant familiarity.

Visually and structurally it's a mess, but many of the situations are genuinely clever, and there are plenty of memorable gags.

A touching and hilarious love story that is Allen's most three-dimensional film to date.

Personal as the story he is telling may be, what separates this film from Allen's own past work and most other recent comedy is its general believability.

Funny movie about relationships. Not for kids.

Woody Allen's best work.

To represent the male view of romance and feelings through the role of Alvy Singer (played by Woody Allen), writer-director Allen updated the familiar stock character of thje "little man" who's at bay in a complex world--a grown up Charlie Brown.

Seminal, hilarious look at contemporary relationships.

Woody Allen at his smartest, wittiest, funniest and best.

If you can forgive the fact that it's a ragbag of half-digested intellectual ideas dressed up with trendy intellectual references, you should have a good laugh.

Lifelong anhedonia may have robbed Allen of happiness, but at least it gave him some material.

I imagine it was probably more ground-breaking when it came out.

It's a very funny film, playing with half-baked intellectual ideas, with Woody at the top of his verbal game.

A rollicking exploration of one paranoid fellow's tangled world of love and loss.

Allen's only perfect movie.