Anything Else
DreamWorks Distribution | Release Date: September 19, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
16
Negative:
12
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Critic Reviews

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38
New York PostLou Lumenick
This relentlessly mediocre romantic comedy is basically a pretty arthritic third-generation Xerox of "Annie Hall," with Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci in the old Allen and Keaton parts in a probably quixotic attempt to court the youth market. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
The worst performance in a film that diminishes even the talented Stockard Channing is given by Allen. He's never written a more unpleasant, vapid or irredeemable character for himself, and he makes it worse by overplaying. Read full review
30
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Anything Else isn't just the latest Woody Allen movie; it's also the smallest. His pictures seem to be getting tinier and tinier, and after you've seen them they leave nothing but a tinny echo and a bad taste. Anything Else is misanthropy writ small. Allen is too stingy to be generous even with his contempt. Read full review
30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
The movie doesn't have the energy to be truly horrible. It's too muted and enervated. But it's a somewhat tedious thing to sit through. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
The film's hatred of Ricci and Channing and its affectionate tolerance of the hero's mousy hypocrisy and his mentor's negativity are familiar Allen motifs, but the faint echoes of his best work only make this one seem grimmer. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
Being a cultural icon is a time-limited occupation; after a while, the culture moves on, and if you don't move with it, you end up with a movie like Anything Else. Read full review
30
The New YorkerDavid Denby
Feels like a pointlessly nagging play.
30
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
A joylessly plodding film that cannibalizes Allen's classics of the '70s and '80s while managing only a few decent one-liners. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
This movie is wretched, condescending, and sad, like watching an elderly man spend more than 100 minutes tapping his arm for the youth vein -- which he never finds. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
This seemingly good idea results in disaster. Allen has no insight into the current generation of young people, and his film is just a jumbled rehash of themes and motifs that he's explored elsewhere. Read full review
25
PremiereAlex Kranz
The dialogue itself is not interesting or funny. Ostensibly sophisticated remarks--lazy references to Freud or Dostoevsky or whatever--pack no dramatic or intellectual weight. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Too labored to be romantic and too derivative to be funny.
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