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Article: WOODY ALLEN'S `MATCH POINT' IS A SEDUCTIVE THRILLER.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- January 20, 2006
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Byline: WILLIAM ARNOLDP-I movie critic
It's been more than a decade since Woody Allen has made a movie that has gotten anyone excited, but "Match Point" - his 40th film as a director since 1965 - is doing just that. It stands as a testament both to the power of persistence and the fact that it's not impossible for a filmmaker to have a renaissance at age 70.
The film - one of his longest and most serious, with scarcely a breath of comic relief - is an unpredictable, unusual, consistently engrossing drama of a kind that has almost disappeared from Hollywood. It has been generating Oscar buzz ever since it premiered at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
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