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Article: Review: 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona'

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Woody Allen has been doing some of his best work in decades recently, finally freed from the need to make "Woody Allen movies." The taut, noir-inflected drama "Match Point" (2005) showed Allen finally taking chances on something new.

Perhaps inevitably, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" indicates some backsliding into a bit of what Allen does worst.

It's about two very different best friends, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson), going on vacation together in Barcelona. Neither is an artist, but both have artistic pretensions - - the newly engaged Vicki is a grad student studying "Catalan identity," and the beautiful, impulsive Cristina likes a volatile artistic temperament in ...

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