EW’s critics rank the director’s classics and misfires

BEST 10.

It’s a one-joke movie, but the joke is flawlessly told.

Chris Nashawaty

BEST 9.

Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, … | A magical, merry-prankster stunt of a film that takes the form of a classic newsreel documentary about Leonard Zelig, a 1920s medical marvel who was

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What’s Up, Tiger Lily?

Owen Gleiberman

BEST 8.

The rare existential comedy that will have you thinking about life long after you leave the theater.

Mie Hama, Woody Allen, … | Three years before he made his first live-action comedy, Take the Money and Run , Allen took a bad ersatz-James Bond ’60s Japanese spy caper

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Chris Nashawaty

BEST 7.

Twenty-four karat comedy gold.

Chris Nashawaty

BEST 6.

Woody Allen, Martin Landau, … | Maybe Allen’s most poignant morality tale, starring Martin Landau as a respected opthamologist with blood on his hands, Alan Alda as a hilariously pompous TV

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Owen Gleiberman

BEST 5.

The whole thing is like a top that never stops spinning.

Owen Gleiberman

BEST 4.

Woody Allen, Sleeper | With its sleek, brave-new-world look and smorgasbord of smart-aleck sight gags, this carbonated sci-fi comedy stars Allen as Miles Monroe, a ’70s health-food store owner

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Owen Gleiberman

BEST 3.

This lusciously twisty and lived-in adultery drama is driven by a lust that turns into authentic compulsion.

Then he meets the friend’s fiancee, played by Scarlett Johansson with a looking-for-trouble carnality.

Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, … | It may not scale quite the sublime heights of Annie Hall or Manhattan , but the third chapter in Allen’s New York trilogy of neurotic

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Owen Gleiberman

BEST 2.

Owen Gleiberman

BEST 1.

Which isn’t to say thatAnnie Hallisn’t hilarious because it is.

Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, … | The most perfect and enchanting of all of Allen’s whimsically crafted pop-nostalgia fantasy fables. It’s set in 1930s New Jersey, where Mia Farrow, touchingly melancholy,

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But it’s also so much more.

Allen and Keaton’s chemistry is pure movie magic.

And if you don’t believe us, just ask Marshall McLuhan.

Woody Allen, Bananas | The very notion of Woody Allen’s ‘‘early, funny films’’ has been a punchline for so long that there are whole generations who have no idea

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We happen to have him right here?.

Shadows and Fog (1992)

It might as well have been calledGloom and Doom.

Owen Gleiberman

WORST 4.

Woody Allen, Scarlett Johansson, … | Stuck in a rut of comic trifles, Allen went to London and had not just a comeback but the most vital return to form for

Clive Coote

Owen Gleiberman

WORST 3.

Owen Gleiberman

WORST 2.

Owen Gleiberman

WORST 1.

Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, … | Allen’s greatest portrait of brainy, artistic, neurotic, and deeply lovestruck New Yorkers. It’s an intensely dramatic comedy and, at times, an extraordinarily prophetic one (Michael

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Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, … | The moment when the early, funny Woody Allen took a jack-knife turn into the more serious, searching films that would vault him from slapstick comedian

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Woody Allen, Shadows and Fog | It might as well have been called Gloom and Doom . In this stultifying gray-and-white period pastiche of artists whom Allen admires (Franz Kafka, Kurt

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Helen Hunt, Woody Allen, … | For our money, the most tepid of all those Allen films that wear their confectionary ‘‘smallness’’ on their lapel. Allen plays a cranky insurance investigator

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Woody Allen, Gretchen Mol, … | It’s a question worthy of a sweepstakes: Of all the actors who have occupied the center of a Woody Allen film by wearing herring-bone jackets

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Jason Biggs, Woody Allen, … | There are few things more painful than the sound of Allen churning out antsy ‘‘neurotic’’ dialogue by the yard for actors who are 20 years

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Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, … | The perfect storm of unwatchable Woodyisms: It’s a fiasco of morose mannerisms made when he was still trying to imitate the moody solemnity of Ingmar

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