Woody Allen

Rating: 10/10 (15 January 2006)

I don't understand why people keep saying that his latest movies lacked some type of Woody Allen genius that was running through the veins of his other films. They are all spectacular. He didn't run into a dry spot creatively in the last few years. He's a genius and people seem to forget he knows what he is doing and no one who spends any time on this side could ever match him. People have said anything else and celebrity were lackluster movies. Celebrity was hilarious. Anything Else was only the beginning of Woody's new style, which I have no idea as to where it originated. Just some impromptu spout of imagination and all of a sudden he's movies have some of the best cinematography in film history. That was followed by Melinda which was just amazing. He isn't making movies in order for his audience to be on the edge of their seats. He is no panderer.Those films were both fantastic. And now match point. It just seems that everybody who calls Woody's later works bland or aesthetically or intellectually lacking are prisoners of some horrible sort of cretinism.