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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
With each passing film, it becomes excruciatingly obvious that Allen lives in his own urban neurotic bubble, cut off from how people -- even the Manhattan intelligentsia he both celebrates and skewers -- actually speak and interact.
There are plenty of gently amusing lines here ... and many nostalgic pleasures.
Too bad Allen didn't throw out the grim half of the movie and start over.
Not enough to say [Allen] has returned to form, but enough to remind you of what that form was.
Occasionally confusing but inherently appealing, Woody Allen once again explores the concept of alternate realities.
Though it sounds like a creative writing assignment, Allen manages to make the conceit feel as natural as it is interesting.
Melinda and Melinda is a treat for Woody Allen fans. For one thing, it’s pretty good, which has been a rarity in the 21st century for the director.
Woody Allen's parallel-lives story is a nicely made diversion that puts him back on track.
It's fun and it's funny.
Two lousy movies for the price of one.
Melinda and Melinda is perhaps best thought of as an offering to the memories of Ernst Lubitsch and George S. Kaufman, half-forgotten culture heroes whose examples of crisp sophistication deserve to be kept alive for future generations.
Top CriticThis is closer to an Allen comeback than anything else he's made recently.
Woody Allen does it again: one more unfunny, terrifically out-of-touch comedy set in an almost unrecognizable upper-class New York, pristine and shiny.
An invigorating return to the brainy but breezy New York story that reinvents the ways in which stories can be told cinematically.
Comedy wins out over tragedy thanks to Will Ferrell's presence in Woody Allen's schizophrenic new offering.
In this deplorable view of marital fidelity Woody Allen proves he's the master of tedium with a big assist from Will Farrell whose amoeba-like range stinks up the screen.
missing, unfortunately, both laughs and tears
The best reason to see Melinda and Melinda is Radha Mitchell, who has her grabbiest role (or two of them) since she broke through with High Art.
Not a sitcom but a fleshed-out comedy, one of Woody's most complex pieces ever.
Neither comedy nor tragedy, the movie is closest to genteel soap opera.
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