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Article: Movie review: Match Point ****: Winning return: Woody Allen comes back with an uncharacteristic tale of love, lust.(Movie Review)
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- The Blade (Toledo, OH)
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- February 17, 2006
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Byline: Christopher Borrelli
Feb. 17--Woody Allen makes movies about taste. Deep down, put aside the famously fluttery neuroses, the Louis Armstrong jazz soundtracks, the black-and-white opening-credit sequences, and the alarmingly big Upper East Side apartments, and this is what a Woody Allen film is about, and what he feels comfortable addressing: good and bad taste; cheap, fleeting taste, and safe, tried-and-true taste. People who swear by taste, people who never consider that taste matters, and the ramifications of tastes. For instance, in his latest picture, the leading man, tennis pro Chris (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), marries well; he never had much and now ...