Whatever Works

"Kvetch Your Enthusiasm. (...) My problem with 'Whatever Works' (...) is not that the premise is a wee bit familiar. Rather, it’s that the delivery is off." 

"Feels like something out of time and, worse, out of step. Hell, Allen wrote the script back in the 1970s for Zero Mostel. (...) But no true movie fan will want to miss the comic mind–meld of Woody and Larry. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)." 

"A sour romantic comedy, only sporadically amusing, (...) The characters are hardly more than stick figures, and both the film's incidents and its dialogue are so arbitrary" 

"Woody prevents the plot from descending into logic and reason with her character’s blind faith that everything is for the better (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)" 

"Of the many Woody Allen surrogates past (...) [Larry David] may be the most philosophically harmonious." 

"Woody Allen is still funny (...) These later films are nevertheless little urban tales of considerable philosophical import, told with an old-fashioned lightness of touch, one I find continually charming." 

"What's Woody Allen's worst film? Look no further."