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Best movie of this year hands down!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Writer-director Woody Allen does not appear in this lesser comedic effort (he did himself a service by bowing out), but he's nearly present just the same. Kenneth Branagh does an amazing Woody Allen impersonation as a fidgety, horny newspaper and magazine writer who has various encounters with sexy women after divorcing his neurotic wife, played by a drab, worn-out Judy Davis. Melanie Griffith is very good as a glamorous starlet, Winona Ryder is cute as a waitress and movie extra, Charlize Theron is positively feral as predatory supermodel, and Leonardo DiCaprio is very convincing (unpleasantly so) as a havoc-wreaking, foul-mouthed movie star. But the meet-cutes and idle chatter between these characters do not a movie make--these people are so tiresome most of the time, they bore themselves. Allen takes a bit of chance here--this isn't his usual collection of smart-talking, classical music-loving New Yorkers--however the male-female hang-ups are still the same, depressingly so. *1/2 from ****

An earnest couple split up in a passion and, instead of getting back together, spin off into the chaos of the celebrity universe - one sets a pattern, the other drifts into oblivion. Or is it the other way round?Amazing cast, and the best performance is by Theron who uses everything she's got. Ryder is also excellent with her close ups, and Caprio rips it all up. The rest are pretty good, although puffy-faced Brannagh doesn't cut it: channelling Woody Allen is OK at first, but mostly irritating. The female lead also struggled. And Sam Rockwell gets his perm wet in the bath.It's stylish, but impossible to discuss without mentioning the actors by name. So something went wrong with the story, and it dragged a lot - at 60 mins I thought, "Crrrp - 45 mins to go." Poor story, despite the clever script.Music is good, and the New York boroughs look great.Overall, lots of lovely detail swirling in a bowl of brown water.

What makes Woody Allen so good (besides the witty dialogues) is the striking way in which he failed (and to a lesser extent succeeded) customers can bring in pictures. Often Allen's films run the relations piece for reasons you often hear around you. The power of him is that he often credible and interesting to capture on film.In Celebrity, it is not about nothing, but it is about something... the fraud of celebrity existence, having relationships in this world, no longer appreciating your current relationship, falling in love with another, or rather thinking that you are in love with another. For me, Woody a great director who knows me regularly to laugh at, but also knows how to intrigue with his outlook on relationships between people / loved ones and know me in a fresh way to point out the common pitfalls.Normally I find Woody himself comfortably in the lead in his films, but in Celebrity, he made a good choice to give the role to someone else. Woody namely fits less in the world of glitter more than glamour. His replacement is also good and again I have again enjoyed a Woody movie.

OK, nicely shot, nicely acted, story starts off interesting (brilliant, even -- with HELP! written across the New York sky) but then slowly but increasingly starts to lag, and Kenneth Branagh pretty much mimics Woody Allen which is irritating. This is pretty much the attempt to update Annie Hall -- amorous trials and tribulations of neurotic Manhattaners, this time with a "celebrity" twist to it -- but unfortunately in such a way as to make you wish you'd be watching the original. If you haven't seen Annie Hall then you might find this refreshing, but you'd still be better advised to watch the original instead. The problem is that our old friend Allen Konigsberg doesn't have anything to say about celebrities that really needed to be said, that would make this movie worthwhile. Instead, the inclusion of high-falutin' celebs only adds to this movie's implausibility (such as when filmstar Melanie Griffith basically falls over herself to offer our everyman hack Branagh oral sex). Almost more than with Allen you keep wondering what that endless string of divas, supermodels and budding actresses see in Branagh's character. Are stutter and occasional rhetorical diarrhea really that cute?On the other hand, great performance from Judy Davis, and her storyline is more interesting too. It's also fun to see also those then budding young stars such as Leonardo di Caprio, Charlize Theron and Winona Ryder, who have since all become staples, at a time when they hadn't yet dropped their thespic gonads (figuratively speaking).PS: a few later, I've pretty much forgotten this movie. Not a good sign.