Crimes and Misdemeanors

This is one of my favorites and I am not a huge Woody Allen fan. Everyone is awesome in this movie! I am glad to boost the grade of this film... Full review

"Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1989)- is Woody Allen's masterpiece and my favorite film. It is urban and sophisticated, subtle and cruel. It is darker than dark and self-ironic. It is profound and touchingly poignant. It is deadly serious and in the same... Full review

Not that I'm a clairvoyant, but I doubt Woody Allen will ever make a film better than this one. Allen has done some fine films in the last 15 years, but nothing I have seen makes me think that he... Full review

Crimes & Misdemeanors is simply one of Woody Allen's greatest films. He's known for his comedies like Annie Hall and Manhattan, and those are great films, too, but sometimes in his dramas he hits it out of the park. This is... Full review

Not much has to be said. This is an outstanding film, possibly one of the best films I have ever seen. All performances are perfect. Half drama, half comedy, and that very well done. It has deep thoughts about quilt... Full review

This movie is two separate stories made into one via just three devices: 1) a relatively minor, albeit symbolic character (a blind Rabbi), 2) a brief meeting of the two main protagonists, and 3) a philosopher's narration at the closing... Full review

Let's begin by declaring that you do not need to be a Woody Allen fan to appreciate this film. As is often the case, Allen's schlemiel character is the least sympathetic and interesting one in the movie.But that aside, here's... Full review

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) offers perhaps the most complex study of the relationship between film and reality in all of Woody Allen's work, not excepting the lighter treatment of the theme in The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985). In Crimes... Full review

"The last time I was in a women I was visiting the Statue of Libert" is where that quote came from. There are many more good quotes but I'm not gonna list them. You have to watch for yourself.... Full review

This is a really funny movie. I really liked it alot and I think more people need to see this movie. I don't know what to say so I am just typing bull crap.... Full review

Woody Allen spent most of the 1980s and '90s veering between comedy and drama, and he rarely combined the two with greater success than in Crimes and Misdemeanors , in which he weaved together two stories, one deadly serious, one often funny, both ending in sadness. ... Full Review

The implications of " Crimes and Misdemeanors " are bleak and hopeless. Landau is never more effective than when he is shocked and dismayed at his own behavior. ... Full Review

But "Crimes and Misdemeanors" is still another great accomplishment for Allen, an artist whose films are vastly underappreciated by American moviegoers at large. As a side note it should be mentioned that the PG-13 rating for "Crimes and Misdemeanors" seems rather harsh for a movie that depicts most of its crimes off-camera and has only a few profanities and a couple of vulgar jokes. ... Full Review

fine ensemble acting....an extremely ambitious film....the film seldom fulfils its promise, and its pessimistic 'moral'.... ... Full Review

In a departure from movies dependent wholly on jokes and funny lines, Allen makes Crimes and Misdemeanors reliant upon decent roles and harmonious ensemble acting. It's a testament to his directorial maturity that the film largely succeeds, generating a certain level of suspense because it's really not obvious what choices the characters will make (given that there's no need to provide a Hollywood happy ending). ... Full Review

First they knock our NHS, then they mess with our film posters; truly, there are days when it's hard not to believe that America hasn't launched a stealth war against us, and that by this time next year we'll have... ... Full Article

Director Woody Allen reminds secularists that just because God might not be watching, it doesn't mean it's time for a chanting of Olly Olly oxen free in the 1991 film Crimes and Misdemeanors . ... Full Article

Emily Bazelon chatted online with readers about this project. Read the transcript . The recent release of Jane Mayer's book The Dark Side revealed that a secret report by the International Committee of the Red Cross determined "categorically" that the ... Full Article

The L.A. City Attorney has charged Dennis Farina with three misdemeanors as a result of his arrest last month. Farina was popped at LAX on May 11 after trying to get through security with a loaded gun .22 caliber, semi-automatic... ... Full Article

By Carl Hoover | Friday, February 1, 2008, 02:02 PM No, not the ceremony that may or may not happen this year on Feb. 24, but - commercial plug here - Turner Classic Movie s' month-long celebration of Oscar winning... ... Full Article

One of film's all-time-greatest supporting performances reached the screen in 1994. The actor was Martin Landau, outshining his previous great achievements ( North by Northwest , Tucker: The Man and His Dream , Crimes and Misdemeanors ) with a pitch-perfect... ... Full Article