Metacritic reviews

To call Match Point Woody Allen's comeback would be an understatement - it's the most vital return to form for any director since Robert Altman made "The Player."

Woody Allen's best movie in years means to trip us up: Sexual sizzle. London instead of Manhattan. Brit actors. Dark humor with a sting that leaves welts. You bet it's a change. And it looks good on the Woodman.

Its many pleasures derive from the way this drama unfolds unexpectedly from the characters rather than imposing itself on them.

Well-observed and superbly cast picture is the filmmaker's best in quite a long time.

Allen covers it all with intelligent dialogue and unexpected moments of clever visual storytelling.

Switching into a dramatic gear, Woody Allen surprises but often struggles in this dark morality tale.

Though the tale is told with crisp sangfroid and a wonderful twist, there's hardly a scene I haven't seen somewhere else.

When they get to canoodling and conniving, you won't ask for your money back.

Match Point is a perfectly presentable, entirely unremarkable domestic melodrama parked queasily between opera and realism, two irreconcilable forms if ever there were.

Match Point is a fatally neat exercise in detached craftsmanship, and maybe that's the best we can expect from Allen at this point.