Its basic weakness is that... it limits itself to ground already familiar from Annie Hall and Interiors. It is witty, of course, but by the end I found I was tiring of the characters.

Full Review | Sep 22, 2024

Except for its striking black-and-white photography, Manhattan would seem a sequel to Annie Hall. Cast and content rate superlatives. A landmark film, destined to become a classic.

Full Review | Nov 16, 2023

The film, shot in deeply satisfying black and white, has the nervous tension and the romantic excitement of a beloved city.

Full Review | Oct 2, 2023

By the way, Isaac's wife, played by Meryl Streep, has left him to become a lesbian. This wasn't that popular a move back in 1979. In fact, Meryl did it before New York magazine even had a "Lesbian Chic" cover.

Full Review | Jun 15, 2021

Fortunately, this film has a quick run time of 96 minutes so you only have to be around these obnoxious people and their trite problems for a short time.

Full Review | Apr 1, 2021

One of Woody Allen's very best works, with a screenplay that stands out amongst his numerous projects as original and satisfying.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10 | Aug 30, 2020

Woody Allen establishes all the life, beauty, and romance that come with living in New York City.

Full Review | Aug 14, 2020

Manhattan (1979) was an acclaimed, mature, B/W masterpiece enhanced by a George Gershwin score (performed by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta), telling about infidelity, entangling romances and situations...

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Sep 29, 2019

The gorgeous black and white photography recalls the smoky images of a New York that existed perhaps only in portraits on a wall, but it also evokes the way its lead character, and by proxy Allen himself.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 6, 2019

I don't know if I can think of a Woody Allen film that looks as good.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Mar 9, 2019

Allen has always had difficulty harmonising his comic talents and the skittering form of his films: Manhattan is a temporary resolution gratefully received.

Full Review | Jul 31, 2018

More classic than ever, Allen has finished a work of rare perfection... [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Feb 8, 2018

There is a good deal of honest concern in Allen's wrestling with the Angel, not to mention that he is a man of uncommon charm and wit. But the theme is beginning to wear thin ...

Full Review | Feb 6, 2018

What George M. Cohan did with the Stars and Stripes in 1919, Allen is doing with neurosis in 1979: waving it, telling us that as long as we're proud of it, we're all pretty damned OK. That's the real romance of Manhattan.

Full Review | Jan 9, 2018

It feels like a mean-spirited parody of Annie Hall.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 14, 2017

A pretty and problematic picture that leaves a sour taste in the mouth.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2017

With Manhattan, a sparkling romance about the overspecialized anxieties of overintellectualized New Yorkers, Woody Allen has bounced back from the sobriety of "Interiors" to an exhilarating new comic high.

Full Review | Dec 18, 2015

...a film that one admires more than anything else.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 27, 2015

Bittersweet romance with mature themes, sex, profanity.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2015

The film should not come as a complete surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to Allen's doings lately. This is the movie that Annie Hall hinted at and to which last year's Interiors, flawed as it was, seems to have served as a necessary prelude.

Full Review | Feb 10, 2014