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37 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardA bouquet of snappy one-liners and disarming nuttiness.
- 75Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldSeattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldHis persona clicks, the physical comedy amuses, and its comic vision is tantalizing enough to make us suspect the Old Master still may have at least one masterpiece in him trying to get out.
- 63Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyPhiladelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyIt might not be good enough to make you laugh consistently, but Hollywood Ending looks good enough to eat.
- 63Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezThere's a mean little Hollywood satire squirreled away within Hollywood Ending, but you have to look hard to find it.
- 50The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenMore than merely stale and dated, Hollywood Ending seems lazy and careless -- the structure is loose to the point of crumbling.
- 42Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanFor Woody, it's looking more and more like the end of his days of whine and neurosis.
- 40Film ThreatTim MerrillFilm ThreatTim MerrillServes as more proof, as if any were needed, that Allen desperately needs to devote more time to polishing his scripts, and less to heedlessly banging out one film a year, year in and year out.
- 40Washington PostStephen HunterWashington PostStephen HunterIt feels old, tired and given-up-on, maybe three drafts shy of minimal production level.
- 30New Times (L.A.)Andy KleinNew Times (L.A.)Andy KleinWhat's particularly scary about Hollywood Ending, however, is that its flaws are exactly the sort of problems that often afflict aging directors, flaws that we've never seen in Allen before -- bad comic timing, slack pacing, an unsteady control of tone, a reliance on jokes that have long since become clichés.
- 20L.A. WeeklyManohla DargisL.A. WeeklyManohla DargisIt isn't only that there is a dearth of ideas in Hollywood Ending -- however hateful, "Deconstructing Harry" was at least about something -- it's that the whole thing is almost entirely devoid of pleasure.