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==Reception== | ==Reception== | ||
On the [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of 40% based on reviews from 136 critics, with an average rating of 5.3/10. The website's critics consensus states, "Too many elements from better Woody Allen films are being recycled here."<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/anything_else | | On the [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of 40% based on reviews from 136 critics, with an average rating of 5.3/10. The website's critics consensus states, "Too many elements from better Woody Allen films are being recycled here."<ref>{{cite web |title=Anything Else |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/anything_else |access-date=December 11, 2023 |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]}}</ref> [[Metacritic]], which uses a [[Weighted arithmetic mean|weighted average]], assigned the film a score of 43 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.<ref>{{cite web |title=Anything Else |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/anything-else |access-date=April 2, 2020 |website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref> Audiences surveyed by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film a grade C− on scale of A to F.<ref>{{cite web |title=Anything Else (2003) C− |url=https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date=2018-12-20 |work=[[CinemaScore]]}}</ref> | ||
[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave the film three stars out of four, and wrote: "At a time when so many American movies keep dialogue at a minimum so they can play better overseas, what a delight to listen to smart people whose conversation is like a kind of comic music."<ref>{{cite news |last= Ebert |first= Roger |author-link= Roger Ebert |title= Anything Else movie review & film summary (2003) |url= https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/anything-else-2003 | | [[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave the film three stars out of four, and wrote: "At a time when so many American movies keep dialogue at a minimum so they can play better overseas, what a delight to listen to smart people whose conversation is like a kind of comic music."<ref>{{cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |date=September 19, 2003 |title=Anything Else movie review & film summary (2003) |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/anything-else-2003 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607155712/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/anything-else-2003 |archive-date=2020-06-07 |access-date=2020-05-10 |newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |via=[[RogerEbert.com]]}}</ref> | ||
James Berardinelli of ''ReelViews'' wrote: "''Anything Else'' may not be the second coming of ''[[Annie Hall]]'', but it has more wit and substance than almost every post-college romance that sees the inside of a projection booth".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/a/anything_else.html | | [[James Berardinelli]] of ''ReelViews'' wrote: "''Anything Else'' may not be the second coming of ''[[Annie Hall]]'', but it has more wit and substance than almost every post-college romance that sees the inside of a projection booth".<ref>{{cite web |last=Berardinelli |first=James |author-link=James Berardinelli |title=Review: Anything else |url=http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/a/anything_else.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030921063111/http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/a/anything_else.html |archive-date=21 September 2003 |access-date=12 January 2022 |website=ReelViews}}</ref> | ||
David Stratton of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' wrote: "The younger casting brings a freshness to the material and, with Allen as the weird mentor, there are plenty of laughs, even if the pacing's slow and the running time over-extended."<ref>{{cite magazine | [[David Stratton]] of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' wrote: "The younger casting brings a freshness to the material and, with Allen as the weird mentor, there are plenty of laughs, even if the pacing's slow and the running time over-extended."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Stratton |first=David |author-link=David Stratton |date=28 August 2003 |title=Anything Else |url=https://variety.com/2003/film/reviews/anything-else-1200539758/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628215031/http://variety.com/2003/film/reviews/anything-else-1200539758/ |archive-date=28 June 2017 |access-date=10 May 2020 |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> | ||
Mike Clark of ''[[USA Today]]'' was critical of the characterizations, the music, the length ("brutally overlong"), but praised the actors for their performances: "It's asking a lot of audiences to spend nearly two hours with characters as screen-unfriendly as the ones played by Biggs and Ricci, though both actors (and especially Ricci) do what they're asked to do." Clark also says the film "sounds as if it ought to be funny, but like so much else here, intent and execution keep missing each other." and complains that the misery of the story is not tempered by sufficient laughs.<ref>{{cite news |title=Allen's 'Anything Else' is a test of patience |url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2003-09-18-anything-else_x.htm | | Mike Clark of ''[[USA Today]]'' was critical of the characterizations, the music, the length ("brutally overlong"), but praised the actors for their performances: "It's asking a lot of audiences to spend nearly two hours with characters as screen-unfriendly as the ones played by Biggs and Ricci, though both actors (and especially Ricci) do what they're asked to do." Clark also says the film "sounds as if it ought to be funny, but like so much else here, intent and execution keep missing each other." and complains that the misery of the story is not tempered by sufficient laughs.<ref>{{cite news |last=Clark |first=Mike |date=2003-09-18 |title=Allen's 'Anything Else' is a test of patience |url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2003-09-18-anything-else_x.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927234323/https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2003-09-18-anything-else_x.htm |archive-date=2020-09-27 |access-date=2020-05-10 |newspaper=[[USA Today]]}}</ref> | ||
In August 2009, it was cited by [[Quentin Tarantino]] as one of his favorite 20 films since 1992, when his career as a filmmaker began.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://movieline.com/2009/08/17/quentin-tarantino-deems-forgotten-jason-biggs-movie-one-of-the-best-films-of-all-time/ | | In August 2009, it was cited by [[Quentin Tarantino]] as one of his favorite 20 films since 1992, when his career as a filmmaker began.<ref>{{cite web |date=17 August 2009 |title=Quentin Tarantino: Forgotten Jason Biggs Movie is One of the Best Films of All Time |url=http://movieline.com/2009/08/17/quentin-tarantino-deems-forgotten-jason-biggs-movie-one-of-the-best-films-of-all-time/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515103617/http://movieline.com/2009/08/17/quentin-tarantino-deems-forgotten-jason-biggs-movie-one-of-the-best-films-of-all-time/ |archive-date=May 15, 2013 |access-date=January 7, 2013 |website=[[Movieline]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Brown |first=Lane |date=August 17, 2009 |title=Team America, Anything Else Among the Best Movies of the Past Seventeen Years, Claims Quentin Tarantino |url=https://www.vulture.com/2009/08/speed_and_team_america_among_q.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130213073053/http://www.vulture.com/2009/08/speed_and_team_america_among_q.html |archive-date=February 13, 2013 |access-date=May 10, 2020 |website=[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]]}}</ref> | ||
[[Leonard Maltin]], in his ''TV, Movie, & Video Guide'', gave the film a "BOMB" rating (the only Allen-directed film ever to receive this citation), and called it "a rare misfire for Woody, but still a big one".<ref>{{cite book|last=Maltin|first=Leonard|author-link=Leonard Maltin | [[Leonard Maltin]], in his ''TV, Movie, & Video Guide'', gave the film a "BOMB" rating (the only Allen-directed film ever to receive this citation), and called it "a rare misfire for Woody, but still a big one".<ref>{{cite book |last=Maltin |first=Leonard |author-link=Leonard Maltin |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780451227645 |title=Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide |date=2009 |publisher=Signet Books |isbn=978-1-101-10660-0 |location=New York City |url-access=registration}}</ref> | ||
In 2016, film critics [[Robbie Collin]] and Tim Robey of ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' ranked ''Anything Else'' as one of the worst movies by Woody Allen.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Robbie | In 2016, film critics [[Robbie Collin]] and Tim Robey of ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' ranked ''Anything Else'' as one of the worst movies by Woody Allen.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Collin |first1=Robbie |author-link1=Robbie Collin |last2=Robey |first2=Tim |date=October 12, 2016 |title=All 47 Woody Allen movies – ranked from worst to best |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/woody-allens-best-and-worst-movies/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118143535/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/woody-allens-best-and-worst-movies/ |archive-date=January 18, 2021 |access-date=February 12, 2017 |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref> | ||
==Soundtrack== | ==Soundtrack== | ||
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* "Easy to Love" | * "Easy to Love" – Written by [[Cole Porter]] – Performed by [[Billie Holiday]] with [[Teddy Wilson]] & his Orchestra | ||
* "Gat I" | * "Gat I" – Written and performed by [[Ravi Shankar]] | ||
* "It Could Happen to You" | * "It Could Happen to You" – Written by [[Johnny Burke (lyricist)|Johnny Burke]] & [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] – Performed by [[Diana Krall]] | ||
* "Gone with the Wind" | * "Gone with the Wind" – Written by [[Herb Magidson]] & [[Allie Wrubel]] – Performed by [[Wes Montgomery]] | ||
* "[[The Way You Look Tonight]]" | * "[[The Way You Look Tonight]]" – Written by [[Dorothy Fields]] & [[Jerome Kern]] – Performed by Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra | ||
* "I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me" | * "I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me" – Written by [[Clarence Gaskill]] & [[Jimmy McHugh]] – Performed by Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra | ||
* "Honeysuckle Rose" | * "Honeysuckle Rose" – Written by [[Andy Razaf]] & [[Fats Waller]] – Performed by Teddy Wilson | ||
* "I Can't Get Started" | * "I Can't Get Started" – Written by [[Vernon Duke]] & [[Ira Gershwin]] – Performed by [[Lester Young]] | ||
* "Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)" | * "Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)" – Written by [[Moby]] & [[Sylvia Robinson]] – Performed by Moby | ||
* "There'll Be Another Spring" | * "There'll Be Another Spring" – Written by [[Peggy Lee]] & Hubie Wheeler – Performed by [[Stockard Channing]] | ||
* "There Will Never Be Another You" | * "There Will Never Be Another You" – Written by [[Harry Warren]] & [[Mack Gordon]] – Performed by [[Lester Young]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Harvey |first=Adam |title=The Soundtracks of Woody Allen: A Complete Guide to the Songs and Music in Every Film, 1969–2005 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] |year=2007 |isbn=9780786429684 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |page=26}}</ref> | ||
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[[Category:2003 romantic comedy films]] | [[Category:2003 romantic comedy films]] | ||
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[[Category:2000s English-language films]] | [[Category:2000s English-language films]] | ||
[[Category:Films set in New York City]] | [[Category:Films set in New York City]] | ||
Latest revision as of 12:20, 28 December 2025
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Plot
Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer living in New York City, has a girlfriend, Brooke. He falls in love with Amanda and has an affair with her. Brooke learns of Jerry's infidelity and leaves him, while Amanda leaves her own boyfriend for Jerry. Jerry turns to aging, struggling artist David Dobel, who acts as his mentor, which includes trying to help sort out Jerry's romantic life. Dobel says that when he told a cab driver of all his anxieties and phobias in life, the cab driver told him, "It's like anything else".
Dobel tries to convince Jerry that his manager is only holding him back and his relationship with Amanda is the most destructive force in his life. Amanda continuously cheats on Jerry. Amanda leaves and then comes back. Jerry's neuroses start to worsen. Eventually, Jerry leaves town as Dobel gets him a job writing for television in California. Amanda has an affair with the doctor who was treating her and runs off with him. He sees them together laughing as she once did with him as the cab is taking him towards the airport. Jerry talks to the cabbie of love and relationships. The cabbie simply replies, "It's like anything else".
Cast
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 40% based on reviews from 136 critics, with an average rating of 5.3/10. The website's critics consensus states, "Too many elements from better Woody Allen films are being recycled here."[1] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 43 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[2] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade C− on scale of A to F.[3]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four, and wrote: "At a time when so many American movies keep dialogue at a minimum so they can play better overseas, what a delight to listen to smart people whose conversation is like a kind of comic music."[4] James Berardinelli of ReelViews wrote: "Anything Else may not be the second coming of Annie Hall, but it has more wit and substance than almost every post-college romance that sees the inside of a projection booth".[5] David Stratton of Variety wrote: "The younger casting brings a freshness to the material and, with Allen as the weird mentor, there are plenty of laughs, even if the pacing's slow and the running time over-extended."[6]
Mike Clark of USA Today was critical of the characterizations, the music, the length ("brutally overlong"), but praised the actors for their performances: "It's asking a lot of audiences to spend nearly two hours with characters as screen-unfriendly as the ones played by Biggs and Ricci, though both actors (and especially Ricci) do what they're asked to do." Clark also says the film "sounds as if it ought to be funny, but like so much else here, intent and execution keep missing each other." and complains that the misery of the story is not tempered by sufficient laughs.[7]
In August 2009, it was cited by Quentin Tarantino as one of his favorite 20 films since 1992, when his career as a filmmaker began.[8][9]
Leonard Maltin, in his TV, Movie, & Video Guide, gave the film a "BOMB" rating (the only Allen-directed film ever to receive this citation), and called it "a rare misfire for Woody, but still a big one".[10] In 2016, film critics Robbie Collin and Tim Robey of The Daily Telegraph ranked Anything Else as one of the worst movies by Woody Allen.[11]
Soundtrack
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- "Easy to Love" – Written by Cole Porter – Performed by Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra
- "Gat I" – Written and performed by Ravi Shankar
- "It Could Happen to You" – Written by Johnny Burke & Jimmy Van Heusen – Performed by Diana Krall
- "Gone with the Wind" – Written by Herb Magidson & Allie Wrubel – Performed by Wes Montgomery
- "The Way You Look Tonight" – Written by Dorothy Fields & Jerome Kern – Performed by Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra
- "I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me" – Written by Clarence Gaskill & Jimmy McHugh – Performed by Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra
- "Honeysuckle Rose" – Written by Andy Razaf & Fats Waller – Performed by Teddy Wilson
- "I Can't Get Started" – Written by Vernon Duke & Ira Gershwin – Performed by Lester Young
- "Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)" – Written by Moby & Sylvia Robinson – Performed by Moby
- "There'll Be Another Spring" – Written by Peggy Lee & Hubie Wheeler – Performed by Stockard Channing
- "There Will Never Be Another You" – Written by Harry Warren & Mack Gordon – Performed by Lester Young[12]
References
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- American romantic comedy films
- DreamWorks Pictures films
- English-language romantic comedy films
- Films about writers
- Films directed by Woody Allen
- Films produced by Letty Aronson
- Films shot in New York City
- Films with screenplays by Woody Allen