Article: 'Match' game: Woody Allen takes the boy out of Manhattan, with successful, suspenseful results'MATCH POINT' (star)(star)(star).

Byline: Allison Benedikt

Jan. 6--To say that "Match Point" is Woody Allen's best film in years is not to say that "Match Point" is a great film. By sloughing off some old habits--ditching his beloved and maligned New York City for London and refraining from writing a leading-man part in his own image--Allen has reinvigorated his favorite argument. Nothing means anything and everything means nothing, and Allen's back to say it with style. Sure, he's still trafficking in the same old bugaboos--adultery, guilt, luck and the absolute lack of any sort of moral order in the universe. And he can't seem to completely shake what plagued his last film, "Melinda ...

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