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80
Time: Richard Corliss
No kidding: this is the feel-good movie of the year and a cinematic soul massage.Read Full Review »
75
Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Easily one of the loosest, most satisfying comedies to hail from the prolific writer/director in a while.Read Full Review »
75
ReelViews: James Berardinelli
It's a slight-but-enjoyable effort, and it features something a little on the surprising side: an optimistic ending.Read Full Review »
75
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Yellnikoff, played with perfect pitch by Larry David.Read Full Review »
63
ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Whatever Works feels like something out of time and, worse, out of step. Hell, Allen wrote the script back in the 1970s for Zero Mostel.Read Full Review »
50
Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Whatever Works is very minor Woody, querulous, fitfully funny, and removed from any shared reality.Read Full Review »
50
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
The fact that Allen wrote the script in the '70s explains something about why his newest movie feels so old.Read Full Review »
50
USA Today: Claudia Puig
Woody, please: Go back to the European locales that so energized you of late.Read Full Review »
40
The New York Times: A.O. Scott
None of it works. Or it works too hard. Whatever.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
A belabored trifle that's occasionally amusing but often just bewildering.Read Full Review »
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