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Title: Ugh! (can we go to Elaine now??, a table awaits...)
Review: The cinematic equivalent of FLAT champagne.Tiresome rather than funny or mysterious. And unusual for Allen films, the photography is undistinguished. Ms. Keaton is lit to resemble a leper.The beginning of THE END for Woody, creatively. At least Crimes and Misdemeanors (which I loathed) had a germ of an idea behind it, stale as it was. MMM was the first real indication that the well had run dry; Allen's uninterrupted string of awful recent films only confirms this. Failing miserably even as a pastiche, MMM apparently doesn't seem like such an insult to younger, immature viewers who've never seen the Welles and Hitchcock films that Woody deigns to pilfer.I enjoyed Anjelica Huston --she gets to show some SASS --and she was all I enjoyed in this thin visit to the glue factory.Is Woody's latter-day post-Mia career "the horror, the horror" that Colonel Kurtz was talking about?
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