Fresh
Although lacking the bite and depth of his best work, Radio Days is one of Woody Allen's most purely entertaining pictures.
Variety Staff, Variety
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Radio Days
Overview
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.
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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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92%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It's a great idea for a movie, but Allen fatally opts for a Fellini: Amarcord approach of formless narrative, larger-than-life coincidence, and rambling ruminations on what times there used to be.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
You peel and peel away at it only to find, in the end, nothing.
Paul Attanasio, Washington Post
Fresh
"Radio Days" is so ambitious and so audacious that it almost defies description.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Childhood anecdotes and charming vignettes are set against bright-light, big-city sets, a-dazzle with beautiful players.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
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