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By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Feb 2009

Manhattan is not just Woody Allen's dream movie. Wistful as it is witty, it's his dream of the movies…

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By Ken Hanke (2,234) for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (2,247) on 18 Feb 2004

The genius of Allen's approach is to present the real Manhattan in such a way that you realize the Hollywood Manhattan is actually there…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 27 Jan 2004

Manhattan depicts urban trippers whose appetite for variety propels them from one person or job or dream to another…

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By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Apr 2003

Gordon Willis's too-dark lensing is an ideal match for the Scenes from a Marriage-inspired sequences of marital and amorous discord…

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By Larry Carroll (167) for Countingdown.com (102) on 07 Aug 2002

One of Woody's best, this is a good place to start if you're unfamiliar with his body of work…

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By Ben Stephens (11) for culturevulture.net (793) on 01 May 2002

The layers of self-awareness and self-referentiality at the heart of this film are dizzying…

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By Michael W. Phillips, Jr. (528) for Goatdog's Movies (527) on 17 Mar 2002

Woody Allen's best movie? It has my vote…

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By Matt Ford (10) for BBC.com (1,500) on 16 Apr 2001

The film perfectly captured the insecurity of late 1970s America…

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By Christopher Null (908) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 13 Feb 2001

After taking a fresh look at the DVD of Manhattan, it's apparent that this isn't Woody Allen's greatest film…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 08 Apr 1994

This is a very good movie. Woody Allen is ... Woody, sublimely. Diane Keaton gives us a fresh and nicely edged New York intellectual…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 11 Jan 1991

If Manhattan was only a romantic comedy, it would be a very good one, but the fact that the movie has so much more ambition than the average…

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By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Feb 1981

The script is funny and observant, full of shocks of recognition, but for all his progress as a writer, Allen's direction remains disconcertingly…

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