Match Point: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 212 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

92

To call Match Point Woody Allen's comeback would be an understatement - it's the most vital return to form for any director since Robert Altman made The Player.
Full Review » 6 years ago
A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)

80

[Allen's] most satisfying film in more than a decade ...
Full Review » 6 years ago
Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

40

As Allen's next movie is reportedly also going to be set in the UK, he really is going to have to learn to speak British at something better than tourist level.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

75

A captivating story of class distinctions that evolves into a chilling psychological thriller.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

If ever there was a case to be made for an artist finding inspiration abroad, Allen's first foray out of New York makes a powerful argument.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

63

What begins as a directorial fresh start becomes a statement of misanthropy that isn't artistically insightful so much as it's resolute.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Michael Atkinson Village Voice (Top Critic)

Crushingly humorless, Match Point also has a grade-school-simple Major Theme: At the outset, Chris's narration informs us that life is luck, and at any point we could win or lose. Whoa.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Jami Bernard New York Daily News (Top Critic)

88

In the final analysis of Allen's career, it may turn out that moral ambiguity, not comedy, was what he did best.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Amy Biancolli Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

75

In every scene, Allen's direction is unflinchingly clear-eyed, and it's a pleasure being walked through London at the same unhurried pace that he's taken through Manhattan all these years.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

92

Match Point is his best film since 1992's Husbands and Wives.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Lisa Kennedy Denver Post (Top Critic)

75

Woody Allen's Match Point is a too-rare thing: a fine film that waxes philosophical about morality, ambition and relationships.
Full Review » 6 years ago
David Denby New Yorker (Top Critic)

[Allen's] new movie, Match Point, devoted to lust, adultery, and murder, is the most vigorous thing he's done in years.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

100

Deserves to be ranked with Allen's Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, Manhattan, Crimes and Misdemeanors and Everyone Says I Love You.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Allison Benedikt Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

75

It's a pleasure to let the Allenisms wash over you, ever so slightly disguised in the form of a taut dramatic thriller but never diluted.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

75

Allen has finally emerged as something of a storyteller and a stylist.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

100

A story of lust, love and the lure of money, Match Point is so thoroughly compelling, and so deftly acted by all parties concerned, that it turns and churns deep in the gut.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Jeff Strickler Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

88

The arrival of Match Point is good luck for movie fans.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

92

This is Woody beyond Woody, his best work in more than a decade and the antithesis of most fans' expectations.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

80

It's a film worth seeing several times. If you're lucky enough to get the chance.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Rex Reed New York Observer (Top Critic)

It has Woody's humor and subtlety; no British bluntness here. The acting is first-cabin all the way. And it's genuinely moving. Move it to the top of your must-see list.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Andrew Sarris New York Observer (Top Critic)

Match Point is wittier and more coherent than anything [Woody Allen] has done in ages; it is well made and well thought out to its very last shot.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)

In thematic terms, Match Point, whose tennis allusion reflects a preoccupation with the role of luck in life, comes closest to Crimes and Misdemeanors among Allen's films.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Kyle Smith New York Post (Top Critic)

88

Its many pleasures derive from the way this drama unfolds unexpectedly from the characters rather than imposing itself on them.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

60

Match Point is airless, repetitive.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Peter Howell Toronto Star (Top Critic)

63

... a nifty little crowd pleaser ...
Full Review » 6 years ago