Article: FILM REVIEW: 'Match Point' a thrilling adventure in anti-morality

Will Scheibel
University Wire
02-06-2006
(The Daily Iowan) (U-WIRE) IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Rather than the old, scratchy jazz records, we hear old, scratchy opera records woven through the soundtrack. We move from Manhattan to London. Instead of romantic comedy and satire mixed with bittersweet drama, "Match Point" melds elements of the psychosexual thriller with intense human tragedy. With no aging, neurotic Jewish New Yorker in sight.

But the soul of writer-director Woody Allen is alive and well in this nasty, cynical, utterly brilliant slice of social criticism (so those recently disappointed by his fun, lighthearted "Anything Else" [2003] and "Melinda & Melinda" [2005] can expect a more ...

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