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  Review by megan ★★½ 21

  men are trash: the movie

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  Review by othavio ★★ 5

  if male privilege was a film definitly it would be this one

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  Review by Ruth Scouller ★★★★½ 5

  Match Point is everything I was hoping, and more. Woody serves up arguably his most delightfully rich genre reinvention, kind of like a reimagining of A Place in the Sun with a dash of Crime & Punishment.

  Match Point is a curious cross-reference of influences. It has the bedrock of a Woody Allen film. The emotional energy and relationship betrayal of a Hitchcockian dark thriller. And a sliver of Barry Lyndon Irish rogue penetration of high society to it. Most of all, it concerns the element of luck, like a game of high society stakes poker. After all, when one is handed everything, the temptation is to risk it. Only a natural talent for calculated shot selection, along with a fateful…

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  Review by Ciddalio ★★ 6

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  blah blah love triangle... blah blah kiss kiss ... blah blah bang bang ... blah blah oh what the fuck ... blah blah

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  Review by Mario 🎄❄️ ★★★½ 2

  Just here because of Scarlett, ngl.

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  Review by Andreas Bardét ★★★½ 17

  Die NAB-Messe war mal wieder spannend, anstrengend und nun auch vorbei. So saß ich also im Flieger auf dem Rückweg von Vegas nach Hamburg, nach einem nervigen Vier-Stunden-Zwischenstop in Chicago. Blizzard-Alarm. Klingt wie unbetont-cooles Business-Flexing, aber ich hasse lange Flüge (Hallo Herr Scheuermann), und zum Glück kommt das sehr selten vor.

  Neben mir lässt sich eine wunderschöne iranische Geschäftsfrau in ihren Sitz fallen, gefühlt 10 Jahre älter als ich. Sie wirkt tiefenentspannt, sympathisch, hat ein hübsches Lächeln, das sie nur zeigt, wenn sie es will. Wir machen ein wenig angenehm lockeren Small Talk auf Englisch.

  Dann fängt auch schon das "In Flight Entertainment" an: Direkt vor unserer Sitzreihe fährt eine kleine Leinwand herunter, die allgemeine Beleuchtung in der Kabine wird…

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★½ 16

  One of those Woody Allen films that has been on my radar for a while, but I've never given it a chance, partly because I didn't really appreciate Allen's work until lately.

  But, while I don't consider it one of his most memorable works, as I believe the other film that many say influenced this one, Crimes and Misdemeanors, is superior, this was a rather interesting perspective on duplicity and greed by the filmmaker. It's probably one of his spicier films, yet I didn't sense the chemistry between Rhys and Johansson during the sex scenes. Having said that, everyone's performances are excellent, and they all manage to inhabit Woody's universe.

  Allen's signature humour takes most of the front and center…

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  Review by Justin Peterson ★★★★½ 4

  (The Average Joe’s Movie Club Cast)

  Taking the idea that one's luck could bounce one of two ways, and mixing it with a modern retelling of Crime and Punishment.

  "You can learn to push the guilt under the rug and - go on. You have to. Otherwise it overwhelms you."

  Match Point is a tense romantic thriller that is methodically paced, but in turn that gives us time to read so much of what the characters are feeling just from their faces at times. The film does a great job of weaving this idea of chance throughout its narrative, and does an amazing job of then using that to nail its finale. Match Point is also a fasinating case where…

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  Review by 𝙿𝚊𝚘𝚕𝚘 𝙼𝚊𝚌𝙶𝚞𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚗 | 🇮🇹 ★★★★½

  Speaking of Match Point, Woody Allen stated: «There are two types of detective stories. The kind of story you read on the plane and the one - but I don't want to make comparisons - in which murder is used in a deeper way, as in Macbeth, Crime and Punishment or the Karamazov Brothers, in which the crime also has a philosophical meaning». Some of usual Allenian themes, such as those concerning the condition of man in the face of a universe without God and a meaningless life, here take the form of a very lucid, dark and merciless thriller story. The New York director portrays an amoral world, governed solely by chance and luck, in which concepts such as…

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  Review by Ben ★★★★ 2

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  This was way more fucked up than I expected it to be...

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  Review by shookone ★★★★½ 1

  Woody switching from self-indulged comedies over to ice-cold formalism, intellectual filmmaking and a sociocritical commentary. all is construct, but such a trenchant and seductive one.

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  Review by C4rlo5 ★★★

  Here we have a movie directed by Woody Allen, in case you were worried hesitating if he was part of the cast, let me tell you that he doesn’t act here.

  It’s about a professional tennis player who finds himself rising in London’s high society, should he feel like a lucky guy or just a talented one?

  Well, whatever, it’s a comedy, I don’t find it amazing, but I have to admit that it portrays the London’s upper classes in a really good way, the cast does a good a job in general. The story is a good one and the plot has some surprises, but overall the movie feels weak, I don’t know why. Maybe the reason is that…