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Reviews Counted:150
Fresh:80
Rotten:70
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: Woody Allen's uneven Melinda and Melinda fails to find neither comedy nor pathos in what seems like a rehash of his previous themes.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $3,727,614
Synopsis: Woody Allen mixes the tragic with the comic in MELINDA AND MELINDA, a delightful, intelligent look at two versions of the same story. After hearing a tale about a quirky woman who walks in... [More]
Starring: Wallace Shawn, Larry Pine, Radha Mitchell, Jonny Lee Miller
Director: Woody Allen
Reminds us there is little to divide comedy from tragedy, and that neither comes exclusively. After all, the tears of sorrow and the tears of joy both come from the same place, and dampen a tissue with equal intensity.
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Top CriticHappy proof that news of Allen's artistic death has been much exaggerated.
Top CriticWhile the main lure for audiences--Will Ferrell--is basically forgettable, Allen does compose one fascinating and witty look at the human mind and its own ability to depict events through our own sub-conscious preference.
Mitchell, in her dual role, gives a breakout performance (two of them, in fact).
A movie just shouldn't feel like homework. And with the constant shift in stories and repeatedly reinvented characters, unless you're in the mood for taking notes, you're going to feel like you're invited to rehearsals, rather than the finished product.
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All the inner workings of "Melinda and Melinda" show that Allen has finally risen above, returned to his position as a fine filmmaker.
Neither version of Melinda, despite Mitchell’s game try at making them distinctive beyond their different hairdos, is funny or tragic enough to fully engage us; there’s no opportunity for an audience to be moved.
It has great performances, snappy one-liners and a likeably tricksy structure, all wrapped up in an affirmative antidote to life's daunting complexities. Welcome back, Woody.
Top CriticAllen presents the side-by-side stories as if to compare the comic and tragic views of experience, and it might work but for the fact that the two [playwrights] come up with dissimilar plots featuring different characters played mostly by different actors
One story, two versions, each from Woody Allen, so you know you're in for it.
The comic side isn’t really that comic.
A welcome return to form from a really talented guy who's been churning out cinematic junk for the past few years.
(...) aburrida, ni lo suficientemente cómica, ni lo suficientemente dramática...
finding the plot "gimmick" seems to exhaust all of Allen's creativity
Schizophrenic but mildly diverting, with a revelatory performance by Radha Mitchell in the leads.
Overcoming the handicap of an overt, writerly device, Allen crafts a warm comedy and a painful tragedy right before our eyes.
Clever, if not cutting-edge, Woody Allen's "Melinda and Melinda" examines whether we interpet life as a comedy or tragedy.
Even though this isn't up to the standards of the best Woody Allen films, it is still worth watching.
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