Woody Allen: an Evaluation.
by Christian_Dimartino | created - 26 Jan 2013 | updated - 08 Feb 2014 | PublicThese are all of the Woody Allen movies I've seen in chronological order.
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1. Sleeper (1973)
PG | 89 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A nerdish store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Mary Gregory
Votes: 44,834 | Gross: $2.91M
Sleeper is one of Woody's lighter comedies, but yet it is still pretty funny. But it's nothing special. B+
2. Annie Hall (1977)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane
Votes: 278,501 | Gross: $39.20M
Annie Hall is what some call Woody's best movie. Do I agree with that statement? No, but I see why. Although I think it's slightly overrated, I still really like it. A-
3. Interiors (1978)
PG | 92 min | Drama
Three sisters find their lives spinning out of control in the wake of their parents' sudden, unexpected divorce.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Diane Keaton, Geraldine Page, Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt
Votes: 20,939
The first time Woody Allen took a walk to the dark side, and i'm glad he did. Interiors is a big power-punch of a movie. A
4. Manhattan (1979)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Murphy
Votes: 147,319 | Gross: $45.70M
I think it's just as good as Annie Hall. A-
5. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
PG | 88 min | Comedy
A wacky inventor and his wife invite two other couples for a weekend party at a romantic summer house in the 1900s countryside.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, José Ferrer, Julie Hagerty
Votes: 20,519 | Gross: $9.08M
Funny and interesting but not perfect. B+
6. Zelig (1983)
PG | 79 min | Comedy
"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Patrick Horgan, John Buckwalter
Votes: 44,193 | Gross: $11.80M
Zelig is a documentary on crack. I have no clue why he made this movie, but I'm glad he did. B+
7. Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
PG | 84 min | Comedy
In his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Nick Apollo Forte, Sandy Baron
Votes: 26,953 | Gross: $10.60M
Broadway Danny Rose is at times hilarious, but I love the chaos that occurs here. Lots of fun. And it really showed us what talent Mia Farrow was. B+
8. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
PG | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
In 1935 New Jersey, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Irving Metzman
Votes: 55,299 | Gross: $10.63M
I think it's sort of outrageous that Annie Hall won best picture and this wasn't even nominated for it. TPROC blows Annie Hall out of the water. No Allen film has ever been more charming. A+
9. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine, Barbara Hershey
Votes: 76,805 | Gross: $40.08M
This is a great movie. That's it. A
10. Radio Days (1987)
PG | 88 min | Comedy
A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Mike Starr, Paul Herman
Votes: 36,340 | Gross: $14.79M
Funny, charming, and consistently entertaining. A-
11. Another Woman (1988)
PG | 81 min | Drama
Facing a mid-life crisis, a woman rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist's office to write a new book, only to become drawn to the plight of a pregnant woman seeking that doctor's help.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, Ian Holm, Blythe Danner
Votes: 15,049 | Gross: $1.56M
This is one of the two Woody Allen films I'm just not crazy about. It has it's qualaties but there isn't much to really remember here. B-
12. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Bill Bernstein, Claire Bloom
Votes: 60,806 | Gross: $18.25M
This is one of Woody's best movies. I love how he blends the light and dark. It's a fascinating drama, but at the same time it's a charming comedy. And Martin Landau gives one of his best performances. A
13. Alice (1990)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
A spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Mia Farrow, William Hurt, Joe Mantegna, June Squibb
Votes: 15,347 | Gross: $7.33M
Alice is a fun and magical comedy, and Mia Farrow gives her best performance. B+
14. Husbands and Wives (1992)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Sydney Pollack, Judy Davis
Votes: 31,215 | Gross: $10.56M
It's almost too fascinating. A
15. Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
PG | 104 min | Comedy, Mystery
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Jerry Adler, Lynn Cohen
Votes: 46,837 | Gross: $11.29M
Hilarious and lots of fun. A-
16. Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Crime
In New York in 1928, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly, Chazz Palminteri
Votes: 41,807 | Gross: $13.38M
This is another one of Woody's best. I love almost every second of this movie. A+
17. Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
When he discovers his adopted son is a genius, a New York sportswriter seeks out the boy's birth mother: a ditzy porn star and prostitute.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Mira Sorvino, Pamela Blair, Rene Ceballos
Votes: 42,819 | Gross: $6.70M
This is a really original movie. Mira Sorvino is fantastic, and the laughs just don't seem to stop. A
18. Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a troubled marriage while her stepsister gets engaged.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts, Edward Norton
Votes: 39,426 | Gross: $9.71M
A Woody Allen musical comedy. Should it work? Probably not. But it does, and very well. This is one of his most charming movies, and also one of his most ambitious. A
19. Deconstructing Harry (1997)
R | 96 min | Comedy
Suffering from writer's block and eagerly awaiting his writing award, Harry Block remembers events from his past and scenes from his best-selling books as characters, real and fictional, come back to haunt him.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Judy Davis, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Stephanie Roth Haberle
Votes: 47,833 | Gross: $10.69M
Even though it feels like Woody Allen typically plays himself, I think he does his best performance here. This is yet again a very overlooked Woody Allen movie. A+
20. Celebrity (1998)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama
The fortunes of a husband and wife differ drastically after they divorce.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Greg Mottola
Votes: 28,429 | Gross: $5.03M
It has its qualaties but I thought it was a little too long. B
21. Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Woody Allen, Ben Duncan
Votes: 36,692 | Gross: $4.20M
Sean Penn is amazing in this movie, and Samantha Morton is lovely. This is one of the best ones. A+
22. Small Time Crooks (2000)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime
A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Tracey Ullman, Hugh Grant, Carolyn Saxon
Votes: 40,663 | Gross: $17.07M
This isn't one of Woody's best, but it's pretty interesting. B
23. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
An insurance investigator and an efficiency expert who hate each other are both hypnotized by a crooked hypnotist with a jade scorpion into stealing jewels.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Greg Stebner, Woody Allen, John Tormey, John Schuck
Votes: 42,432 | Gross: $7.50M
It's not as good as Manhattan Murder Mystery but it's still pretty fun. B
24. Hollywood Ending (2002)
PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Romance
A director is forced to work with his ex-wife, who left him for the boss of the studio bankrolling his new film. But the night before the first day of shooting, he develops a case of psychosomatic blindness.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Téa Leoni, Bob Dorian, Ivan Martin
Votes: 28,143 | Gross: $4.84M
Though pretty original, it's also ludicrous. But in a good way. B
25. Anything Else (2003)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Romance
Jerry Falk learns a lesson the hard way when he falls in love with the beautiful but flighty Amanda.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, Danny DeVito
Votes: 32,685 | Gross: $3.20M
The presence of Annie Hall is here, and it's not a bad one. B
26. Melinda and Melinda (2004)
PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two alternating stories, one comedy and the other tragedy, about Melinda's attempts to straighten out her life.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Will Ferrell, Vinessa Shaw, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Wallace Shawn
Votes: 33,212 | Gross: $3.83M
He does here what he did with Crimes and Misdemeanors, but yet the two stories are quite different. But I think this is a really good one. A-
27. Match Point (2005)
R | 124 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro falls for an actress who happens to be dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode
Votes: 228,137 | Gross: $23.09M
Now, we've reached the important addition to the list. You are all going to grab pitchforks and murder me, but Match Point is Woody Allen's best movie. allen himself has said so, so if you're a skeptic don't be. This is a masterpiece. A+
28. Scoop (2006)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackman, Jim Dunk, Robert Bathurst
Votes: 87,623 | Gross: $10.53M
It's pretty fun, but it's not as good as Manhattan Murder Mystery. B+
29. Cassandra's Dream (2007)
PG-13 | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go badly and the two become enemies.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Colin Farrell, Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Peter-Hugo Daly
Votes: 53,866 | Gross: $0.97M
Dreary but pretty interesting, Cassandra's Dream is a good movie that comes to a weird close. B
30. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two friends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem, Christopher Evan Welch
Votes: 268,940 | Gross: $23.22M
Mirror mirror on the wall, which Woody Allen movie is the sexiest of them all? That shouldn't even be up for debate. It's obviously Vicky Cristina Barclona. It has the sexiest cast and the whole thing is just damn sexy. It's also one of Woody's most entertaining. A+
31. Whatever Works (2009)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
A middle-aged, misanthropic divorcé from New York City surprisingly enters a fulfilling, Pygmalion-type relationship with a much younger, unsophisticated Southern girl.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Larry David, Henry Cavill, Adam Brooks
Votes: 76,909 | Gross: $5.31M
What does work is Larry David's performance as,well, Woody Allen. But the rest of the movie is outrageous trash if not entertaining trash. B-
32. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sally's parents' marriage breaks up when her father undergoes a mid-life crisis and impulsively weds a prostitute. Meanwhile, Sally's own marriage also begins to disintegrate.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, Gemma Jones
Votes: 47,542 | Gross: $3.25M
This is Woody's most underrated movie. I really like it, but nobody went for it. Screw'em. A-
33. Midnight in Paris (2011)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Kurt Fuller
Votes: 449,986 | Gross: $56.82M
Woody won a long over-due Oscar for his charming screenplay for Midnight In Paris, a lovely time travel fantasy which isn't as good as The Purple Rose of Cairo but is still a great movie none the less. A
34. To Rome with Love (2012)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
The lives of some visitors and residents of Rome and the romances, adventures and predicaments they get into.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Elliot Page
Votes: 90,907 | Gross: $16.69M
It's not as good as Midnight in Paris, but it still works. B+
35. Blue Jasmine (2013)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks like a million dollars but isn't bringing money, peace or love.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard, Sally Hawkins
Votes: 212,594 | Gross: $33.41M
Woody Allen's best film in years. Cate Blanchett gives the performance of a lifetime. I can't wait to see what Woody has next
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