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Article: Woody Allen's reflexive critics.(Deconstructing Woody: A Critical Symposium on Woody Allen's 'Deconstructing Harry')
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- Cineaste
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- June 22, 1998
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In his last four films, Woody Allen coasted on his talent with small works like Bullets Over Broadway (1994) and Mighty Aphrodite (1995) that are essentially pleasant and inoffensive but impersonal. The artistically ambitious Mien of Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), and Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) has resurfaced with Deconstructing Harry, but with a much rawer, raunchier, and actually hateful persona. This new image has evoked an entirely new level of rage among a number of critics and viewers. They are unable to look at an Allen film without confusing moral with esthetic judgment, the man with his work. Their enmity seems to blind them to the film's satirical wit, ...