The best Woody Allen film in a long time may not be enough praise — and might even constitute faint praise to some — to land “Match Point” a lot of kudos, but consider that Allen is a home-grown ...

It didn’t take much Method acting for Jonathan Rhys-Meyers to show awe at the lifestyles of England’s super-rich for the new Woody Allen movie “Match Point.” Having spent time in an orphanage in ...

Woody Allen leaves both comedy and New York behind for his new movie, Match Point, a thriller set in England. Bob Mondello reviews the new film staring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Emily ...

There are those who will take the opportunity to elevate “Match Point” to instant classic status and those who will damn it with faint praise — yet both will do so by saying the same thing: “Woody ...

One reason for the fascination of Woody Allen's "Match Point" is that each and every character is rotten. This is a thriller not about good vs. evil, but about various species of evil engaged in a ...

A change of scenery does Woody Allen a world of good in "Match Point." Making his first film in the U.K. with a story originally conceived for New York, Allen once again takes up issues of morality ...

Imagine Dylan penning raps for Ludacris. Or Robert Altman crafting an intimate, character study. Or Philip Roth writing tawdry romance novels. To purists, the news of Woody Allen shooting a film ...

After Match Point debuted at Cannes, the word spread that this was a different kind of Woody Allen film than what he'd been making lately—more polished, more assured, and, believe it or not, a ...

In recent years, Woody Allen’s movies have grown encrusted with mannerism, set less inside the real world than in the twee Upper East Side of his mind. Now he has rediscovered himself, and reality, ...