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Article: Woody Allen finally hits a winner in 'Match Point'
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- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- January 20, 2006
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Woody Allen has been kidnapped and replaced with a Woody Allen
clone.
Or perhaps he has been lobotomized. Or drugged.
Whatever has happened to him, it's all for the good.
"Match Point" is the best movie he has made in more than a decade,
maybe even stretching back to 1989's "Crimes and Misdemeanors," his
movie that most closely resembles this upside-down drama of moral
consequences, or lack thereof.
Although "Match Point" examines cosmic themes that have occupied
Allen throughout his career, this movie is so unlike the others in
his overstuffed resume that you'd never guess it was a Woody Allen
movie. (Which, for many viewers, will come as a relief.)
Filmed entirely in England (already a ...