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      Celebrity

      R Released Nov 20, 1998 1 hr. 53 min. Comedy Drama List
      42% 43 Reviews Tomatometer 42% 5,000+ Ratings Audience Score 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. Read More Read Less Watch on Peacock Stream Now

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      Entertaining, but too scattered.

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      Steve D Great cast, mess of a script. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Loved Leonardo DiCaprio in this. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review 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 Full Review Audience Member Not one of his best. Great cast, meh everything else. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member 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 Full Review Audience Member #woodyallenretro Podcast Project Whenever woody makes a narrative idea based on his personal hollywood experiences even as a bit of fan-fiction, theres always something left to be desired for us - again, a great cast with some good performances but overall a slice of life perspective of two somewhat confused characters and the energetic actors they meet along the way - it doesn't age as well as we hoped and even seeing a cartoonish Leo and Theron only gave slight amusement... the overall message is kind of be explored better before and it's pretty forgettable as an overall story Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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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 Full Review Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly Rated: B- Sep 7, 2011 Full Review Globe and Mail Rated: 2/4 Mar 19, 2002 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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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
      Executive Producer
      Letty Aronson, J.E. Beaucaire, Charles H. Joffe, Jack Rollins
      Screenwriter
      Woody Allen
      Distributor
      Miramax Films, Laurenfilm S.A., EuropaCorp, Filmes Lusomundo, Bac 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
      Sound Mix
      Surround, Mono
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