Visually and structurally it's a mess, but many of the situations are genuinely clever, and there are plenty of memorable gags.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
13 Dec 2006
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A touching and hilarious love story that is Allen's most three-dimensional film to date.
– Joseph McBride,
Variety,
19 Feb 2008
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Personal as the story he is telling may be, what separates this film from Allen's own past work and most other recent comedy is its general believability.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
20 Feb 2009
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This is the link between Allen's "earlier, funnier" stuff and more probing works like Interiors and Manhattan. Would that we all could build such masterful bridges.
– Keith Uhlich,
Time Out New York,
19 Feb 2013
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Allen joins the Catskills tummler's anything-for-a-laugh antics with a Eurocentric art-house self-awareness and a psychoanalytic obsession in baring his sexual desires and frustrations, romantic disasters, and neurotic inhibitions.