ComedyRomance

Whatever Works

2010
7.1 / 10
A middle-aged, misanthropic divorcé from New York City surprisingly enters a fulfilling, Pygmalion-type relationship with a much younger, unsophisticated Southern girl.
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Woody Allen is back to doing what he is famous for - clever introspective comedy - and he still does it well. He detoured into making crime-dramas, three of them - Matchpoint, Scoop and Cassandra's Dream. All of these were good, and one, Matchpoint, was brilli...
For those wondering what happened to the old Woody Allen, here he is. "Whatever Works" is a script from the 1970s. I noticed that without even knowing Allen has been forthright about it. A few script rewrites -- talk about the Taliban and not the Communists --...
Well, my first review for the IMDb. I picked one that I thought I was not going to like, but I like Woody Allen, so I gave it a shot. I thought I would not like Whatever Works, because I read and heard some of the critics' negative reviews. So, the first ten...
In New York, the bitter and grumpy Professor of Quantum Mechanics in Columbia University Boris Yellnikoff (Larry David) is a snobbish and pretentious intellectual that claims to be a genius in String Theory and that the world is completely wrong. During an exi...
If ever a movie could be described as an allegorical rendition of a director's life, Whatever Works just might top the list. Marking Woody Allen's return to his native New York City after a four picture hiatus in Europe, the movie tells the story of Boris Yel...
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