80
Allen covers it all with intelligent dialogue and unexpected moments of clever visual storytelling.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
70
Though the tale is told with crisp sangfroid and a wonderful twist, there's hardly a scene I haven't seen somewhere else.
50
Match Point is a perfectly presentable, entirely unremarkable domestic melodrama parked queasily between opera and realism, two irreconcilable forms if ever there were.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt
Switching into a dramatic gear, Woody Allen surprises but often struggles in this dark morality tale.
100
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
To call Match Point Woody Allen's comeback would be an understatement - it's the most vital return to form for any director since Robert Altman made "The Player."
88
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
Woody Allen's best movie in years means to trip us up: Sexual sizzle. London instead of Manhattan. Brit actors. Dark humor with a sting that leaves welts. You bet it's a change. And it looks good on the Woodman.
70
When they get to canoodling and conniving, you won't ask for your money back.
50
Match Point is a fatally neat exercise in detached craftsmanship, and maybe that's the best we can expect from Allen at this point.
80
Well-observed and superbly cast picture is the filmmaker's best in quite a long time.