MATCH POINT With Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Emily Mortimer. Director: Woody Allen (2:04). R: Some sexuality at the Beekman. 3. 5 stars. Woody Allen has been kidnapped and replaced wi… ...

Allen had written murder mysteries before, but his 2005 film "Match Point" is straight thriller. The movie tells the story of Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), a tennis player and social ...

In this Baseline series, our editors break down what makes a ‘good’ tennis movie by dissecting some of the sport’s cult classics through the lens of a fan—starting with Woody Allen’s ...

Allen rebounds like a tennis pro. It’s been a long time since you’ve heard anyone say, “Hey, man, have you seen the new Woody Allen movie?” Not with any sense of excitement, anyway.

Like any Woody Allen film, “Match Point” is an embarrassment of acting riches: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Scarlett Johansson bring a seductive and intoxicatingly youthful sexuality to their ...

Paradoxically, Match Point is that poem’s final stanza. In the London of the hyper-rich, Allen gives us the last window his Coney Island nose can push up against, now that he himself is a ...

His levelheaded actor friend and tennis partner Rob (Mr. Roberts) says: “Max, you see conspiracies in everything.” He said Allen once told him: “People like our schmoozing.”. Mr. Roberts ...

Patrick McGilligan’s exhaustive 'Woody Allen: A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham' addresses controversies but is more interested in the filmmaker's best work.