Owen Wilson plays Woody Allen in a total repudiation of Allen's 1990s movies

Rating: 10/10 (8 July 2013)

"Midnight in Paris" confirms what I've always thought: Woody Allen's best movies are the ones in which he goes straight for comedy. With Owen Wilson as a neurotic writer on vacation in the French capital and traveling back to the 1920s to meet the American writers who lived there at the time, it's one of Allen's cleverest movies. I felt like I was never going to forgive him after he made the über-atrocious "Everyone Says I Love You" (about which there was NOTHING to love), but his movies got better after that (I especially liked "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion" and "Scoop"). But this one is the cream of the crop. Allen definitely needs to make more of these. I'd also like to see him make another sci-fi flick like "Sleeper". Maybe even his very own slasher flick (he would presumably play a neurotic guy who rambles about intellectualism while butchering depraved teens).
Anyway, this is a really good movie. You gotta see it.