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Article: WOODY ALLEN FINDS HIS GAME WITH MATCH POINT'.(RHYTHM)(Movie Review)
- Article from:
- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- January 26, 2006
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Byline: Rob Thomas
Woody Allen has just been barely getting his shots over the net in recent years ("Hollywood Ending," "Small Time Crooks") and had one flat-out whiff ("Curse of the Jade Scorpion"). So, for longtime fans, it's a pleasure to see him serve up an ace with "Match Point."
In many ways, "Match Point" doesn't feel like a Woody Allen film. Set in London, it's a sexually-charged drama as dark and bitter as a pint of Guinness, and Allen has traded in his usual New Yorker dialogue for clean, cutting Britspeak. He's covered some of this same thematic territory before -- infidelity, obsession, class struggles -- but rarely has developed them with ...