Recent reviews

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  Review by Ben Trout ★★

  A half-assed collection of ironic jabs - some of them so searing you can almost feel the Wood-man poised to punish us for seeing their obvious relevance to his current situation. By overusing his second act blind spell, a smart gag beaten like a dead horse in the ground, he completely undermines what could've been a much smarter, much angrier self deprecating film-as-stunt. His characters have yet to live and breath as they once did (even his seventies slapstick flicks had more interesting characters with much more depth). The cast lists are starting to reflect his rapid slide downward. Treat Williams? George Hamilton? Tiffani Thiessen? C'mon. You don't have to be blind to figure out what's happening here.

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  Review by Cody Lang ★★½

  Some funny scenes but not a great comedy.

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  Review by Manuel Zambrano ★★★

  El tipo de comedia que casi ya no se ve, muy buena la historia un poco excéntrica por ser de Woody Allen lo que si no me gustó mucho fue el final un poco inesperado

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  Review by Scott Renshaw ★½

  This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  The depressing thing about so many of Woody's recent flops is that they start with a killer concept. Here's a perfect way to send up studio movie-making: a once-great director who's forced to make his movie blind. It lends itself to terrific farcical opportunities, virtually none of which are exploited; it feels as though the only thing Woody thinks he can do with the set-up is have someone walk up to Val and ask, "Do you like this one or this one/this way or that way" (this happens *four* times). And what would be the clear resolution for this scenario? Not to have it be a flop, rescued by the weird tastes of the French, but to have popular tastes…

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  Review by Ian Loring ★★★

  Considering Allen's reputation in the early noughties I was expecting a bit of a turkey here and while it's certainly one of the more "meh" films you'll see Allen come up with, there's still enough here to warrant a watch.

  Allen himself is his usual panicy self though this time that directly plays into the plot in a somewhat clunky way but he gives himself decent lines and his character is endearing enough and it's always good to see Treat Williams get a role, especially in the noughties where he seemed to almost disappear.

  The film is too long, clocking in at around 110 minutes, the 2nd act somewhat labours the central plot machination, and Tea Leoni is her usual bland unimpressive self, not once realistically having any kind of connection with Allen's character but in all it's an easy watch which floats by decently enough but you'll always be in the knowledge that you'll never watch it again.

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  Review by Victor Cohim ★★★

  Uma sátira metalinguística bem humorada. Tem a típica comédia de Allen, ainda mais com ele mesmo atuando. Mas é bestinha.

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  Review by Devon Torrey Bryant ★★½

  I had only seen this movie once before tonight, when it was first released almost a decade ago, and during that viewing I was nearly apoplectic with anger at what seemed, to me, an empty, unoriginal, and worst of all, a not-at-all funny film. Revisiting Hollywood Ending, all these years later, I find that I feel much more kindly towards it. And that I laughed.

  To be clear, this is by no means Woody's best film, but there are many more and much better jokes in here than I remembered. There is a sequence when Woody's estranged son, Tony, who is a punk performance artist who does awful things to live rats, informs his father that he is changing his…

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  Review by Tyler Foster ★½

  This, on the other hand, I found totally tone-deaf, and its ties to Woody Allen's real life seem kinda phony.

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  Review by largewhiteguy ★★★

  A typical Woody Allen Movie, but not the strongest one. It was kind of okay but a little annoying but I enjoyed the presence of Tea Leoni.