Celebrity

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Celebrity

R

Released Nov 20, 1998

1h 53m

Comedy

Drama

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The career and personal life of writer Lee (Kenneth Branagh) are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin (Judy Davis), and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one lavish party to another and engages in numerous empty romances, he starts to doubt the worth of his work. Meanwhile, top TV producer Tony (Joe Mantegna) falls for Robin and introduces her to the world of celebrity.

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Critics Consensus

Entertaining, but too scattered.

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Xan Brooks

Independent (UK)

Unfortunately in Celebrity, Woody Allen's line of attack is compromised by his being at least half in love with the very glitterati he sets out to savage.

Rated: 2/5

Mar 20, 2019

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Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

Rated: B-

Sep 7, 2011

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Globe and Mail

Rated: 2/4

Mar 19, 2002

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

The last of four films shot for Allen by cinematographer Sven Nyqvist, Celebrity looks gorgeous in rich monochromatic photography that lends all the pretty faces onscreen a kind of candid tabloid reality.

Rated: 3.5/4

Dec 4, 2022

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Peggy Fernandez

Santa Cruz Sentinel

There are few insights into what makes a celebrity or why people are drawn to them in this movie. But there is one about the writer/director, himself. Believe in your own myth too long, [and]people are going to start to realize that it isn't real.

Rated: C

Mar 25, 2020

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PJ Nabarro

Patrick Nabarro

Indicative of a time when Allen had a degree of vivacity and ingenuity in his work before it went increasingly down the turgid, tourist-porn route in Europe.

Rated: 3/5

Dec 8, 2018

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bao s

Great film. I loved Kenneth Branagh doing his best Woody.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/19/24

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Steve D

Great cast, mess of a script.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Audience Member

Loved Leonardo DiCaprio in this.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Audience Member

Firstly, I should acknowledge how gorgeous the black and white cinematography is and how fantastic Judy Davis is here (she's so funny and wonderfully tragic) but this is sort of greatest hits collection of Allen that is both a little too long and a little too losely connected.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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Audience Member

Not one of his best. Great cast, meh everything else.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Sven Nykvist's photography is the star here: a gloriously crisp black-and-white arena for Woody Allen's strangely unamusing and confused portrait of celebrity and its complicated appeal. Kenneth Branagh is miscast as an ambitious writer falling in love with a succession of women - there's no vulnerability, just a rather obvious imitation of Allen, and that glib charmlessness he so often brings to the screen. Fortunately there are half a dozen very good supporting turns by the likes of Michael Lerner, Judy Davis and Joe Mantegna, and it's watchable enough.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Synopsis

The career and personal life of writer Lee (Kenneth Branagh) are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin (Judy Davis), and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one lavish party to another and engages in numerous empty romances, he starts to doubt the worth of his work. Meanwhile, top TV producer Tony (Joe Mantegna) falls for Robin and introduces her to the world of celebrity.

Director: Woody Allen
Producer: Jean Doumanian
Screenwriter: Woody Allen
Distributor: Bac Films, EuropaCorp, Laurenfilm S.A., Filmes Lusomundo, Miramax Films
Production Co: Sweetland Films
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 20, 1998, Wide
Release Date (DVD): Feb 23, 2010
Box Office (Gross USA): $5.0M
Runtime: 1h 53m
Sound Mix: Surround, Mono

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