Crimes and Misdemeanors

Pros: Intriguing look into human character.

Cons: none.

The Bottom Line: Good story showing the struggle of morality and rationalization done with a comic flair.

Review: This Woody Allen film (from 1989) has got to be one of his best. I admit that I hadn't seen one of his films since the old Annie Hall days. For some reason I had skipped Crimes and Misdemeanors when it first came out. Well, just lately I watched ...

Pros: A near perfect blending of drama and comedy; one of Allen's most accomplished films.

Cons: none to be found.

The Bottom Line: One of the best films of the 1980s. For Allen, his second best film of the decade.

Review: Woody Allen is always able to get great performances from his cast, but perhaps the best performance ever given by a male lead is the one turned in by Martin Landau in 1989's Crimes and Misdemeanors (the worst being, hands down, Kenneth...

Pros: Allen's Script, Direction, Look, Premise, Music, Locations, & Cast.

Cons: None.

The Bottom Line: Crimes & Misdemeanors is a Smart, Witty Commentary on Morality through Infedelity from Woody Allen helmed by Martin Landau's Riveting Performance.

Review: The name Woody Allen definitely conjures a definitive image. A neurotic, nerdy, Jewish man with a lot of anxieties and ramblings. Despite those things, Allen remains one of cinema's most beloved directors. While early 1970s films like Love & ...

Pros: Smart, Meaningful, Cynical, Often Hilarious

Cons: None. This is Woody Allen's best film!

Review: Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors is a film with a message: God is blind to our sins, and to our virtues as well. The righteous often go unrewarded, and the wicked often go unpunished.

Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau) is an...

Pros: A tapestry of flawless performances woven against an ambitious, and intelligent screenplay

Cons: Merely that it ends

The Bottom Line: Allen proves his ability to work within complex, intelligent drama. This film is emotionally crushing, and very beautiful.

Review: Crimes and Misdemeanors is, by far, Woody Allen's most ambitious film. It is at once, moving and chilling.

The film tells two parallel stories. In one Woody Allen plays a small time documentary film maker trapped in a loveless marriage....

Pros: thought provoking, brilliantly acted by all, funny, intriguing

Cons: heady - not a light comedy

Review: If you could kill somebody that was threatening your happiness and get away with it, would you do it? Or, would your conscience finally catch up to you?

I have often thought that the reason that someone tells you when they have done something...

Pros: Two equally fascinating plots intersect in a thoughtful, existential movie

Cons: None

Review: In the vein of his earlier Hannah and Her Sisters, Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors covers the familiar territories of adultery and integrity and the spectrum of compromise between the two. The film centers around a doctor (Martin Landau) who has...

Pros: Great, entertaining movie which presents many interesting ideas about life

Cons: none

Review: The movie “Crimes and Misdemeanors” displays the irony behind living one’s life by a strict set of moral standards. Its characters prove, in essence, that one who lives a moral life benefits everyone but himself. It does, however, raise the question of...

Pros: Screenplay, acting, great mix of comedy and drama.

Cons: None.

Review: A masterful hybrid of comedy and drama, this film is one of the few on record that can use verbal humor while simultaneously probing the nature of morality and faith. In addition, the very nature of success, both of the romantic and artistic variety, is...

Pros: Excellent plot; great acting; extremely funny; poignant

Cons: None

Review: "Crimes and Misdemeanors" is a very deep, moving, and often funny look at the decisions we make that shape our lives.

There are two parallel stories that intertwine, and that each impart their own lessons about life. The first story...