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Melinda and Melinda (2005)
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Reviews Counted: 144
Fresh: 75
Rotten:69
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Consensus: Woody Allen's uneven Melinda and Melinda fails to find neither comedy nor pathos in what seems like a rehash of his previous themes.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Woody Allen mixes the tragic with the comic in MELINDA AND MELINDA, a delightful, intelligent look at two versions of the same story. After hearing a tale about a quirky woman who walks in unexpectedly on a dinner party in an apartment in New... [More]
Starring: Wallace Shawn, Larry Pine, Radha Mitchell, Jonny Lee Miller
Director: Woody Allen
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02/09/06
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Top Critic Engaging, well performed, cleverly constructed and both tragic and comic as befits its objectives.
03/24/05
It's impossible to empathise because the circumstances are so ridiculously contrived.
03/13/05
Top Critic There is nothing original about it, but the only source it plagiarises is Allen himself, and it rips him off rather well
03/02/05
Top Critic Inventive and insightful look at relationships, although it suffers the flaws of Allen's more recent films.
10/06/04
A movie just shouldn't feel like homework. And with the constant shift in stories and repeatedly reinvented characters, unless you're in the mood for taking notes, you're going to feel like you're invited to rehearsals, rather than the finished product.
05/28/07
All the inner workings of "Melinda and Melinda" show that Allen has finally risen above, returned to his position as a fine filmmaker.
08/29/06
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05/12/06
Allen presents the side-by-side stories as if to compare the comic and tragic views of experience, and it might work but for the fact that the two [playwrights] come up with dissimilar plots featuring different characters played mostly by different actors
01/17/06
One story, two versions, each from Woody Allen, so you know you're in for it.
11/18/05
A welcome return to form from a really talented guy who's been churning out cinematic junk for the past few years.
10/27/05
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09/26/05
Top Critic (...) aburrida, ni lo suficientemente cómica, ni lo suficientemente dramática...
09/17/05
finding the plot "gimmick" seems to exhaust all of Allen's creativity
09/07/05
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