Variety
The structural and stylistic conceit is that when Landau is onscreen, the film is dead serious, even solemn, while Allen's own appearance onscreen signals hilarious satire and priceless one-liners.
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
Multi Oscar and BAFTA nominated Woody Allen comedy-drama following two narratives that ultimately converge. An ophthalmologist's (Martin Landau) mistress (Anjelica Huston) threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker (Allen) is infatuated by another woman (Mia Farrow).
1989Rating: M, Adult concepts104 minsUSA
ComedyDrama
- Director:
- Woody Allen ('Annie Hall', 'Blue Jasmine', 'Midnight in Paris', 'Manhattan')
- Writer:
- Woody Allen
- Cast:
- Woody AllenMartin LandauAnjelica HustonClaire BloomAlan AldaMia FarrowJoanna Gleason
Crimes and Misdemeanors / Reviews
Time Out
Dramatically, the film seldom fulfils its promise, and its pessimistic 'moral' -- that good and evil do not always meet with their just deserts -- looks contrived and hollow. Intriguing and patchily effective, nevertheless.
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The movie's secret strength -- its structure, really -- comes from the truth of the dozens and dozens of particular details through which it arrives at its own very hesitant, not especially comforting, very moving generality.
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Roger Ebert
The movie generates the best kind of suspense, because it's not about what will happen to people -- it's about what decisions they will reach.
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