Inarguably one of Allen's Best, perhaps THE best

Rating: Null/10 (22 September 2003)

This film may be the greatest single study of a relationship ever put to celluloid. It captures two distinct and fully realized characters at a specific time in their lives and shows us, without being too overt, who these people are separately and who they are together. Allen and Keaton have a wonderful neurotic chemistry, which is wonderfully funny without ever being so over-the-top that the characters failed to be believable. Classic scenes abound, including Allen's attempt to do cocaine and Walken in a very early role as Annie Hall's seriously troubled brother, whose monologue to Allen in simply priceless. Also watch for a blink-and-you-missed-it early early appearance by Jeff Goldblum, who delivers what may be the film's funniest single line.
All and All, Annie Hall is hilarious and poignant, a perfectly realized dissection of a relationship and the people who are part of it. A witty jazz score, artfully refined cinematography, and a perfect supporting cast round it out to be perhaps Allen's greatest triumph, well deserving of all the praise and - dare I say it? - even worthy of it's victory over Star Wars for Best Picture in 1977.