Scoop
Focus Features | Release Date: July 28, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
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Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
17
Negative:
7
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PremiereAaron Hillis
What once was a gifted comic's fluid improvisation is now a doddering old man so embarrassing he's uncomfortable to watch, and the surrogate father-daughter needling he has with Johansson is creepy when you realize Woody the director is shooting her seductively in that skintight bathing suit. Read full review
38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
When Allen revives his plodding "Manhattan Murder Mystery" as the even duller Scoop, I snore. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
The direction is lazy and the script thoroughly witless, from its token Bergman references to dialogue that suggests a night in borscht-belt hell. Read full review
30
Washington PostStephen Hunter
This gives nobody, least of all me, any pleasure, but a truth must be faced: Scoop is the worst movie Woody Allen has ever made. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Allen doesn't get us to care much about any of the characters here. Read full review
30
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
Scoop is about 50 minutes of plot padded with 40 minutes of Woody being Woody. Read full review
30
The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
Allen is wretched. It is no kind of pleasure to say so, especially with the memory of the good things he has done; but here he simply plunks front and center the fact that he cannot act and never could. Read full review
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