A Rainy Day in New York

It is evident that Woody Allen is still in the game. He creates great dialogues that make sense. Moreover he is still able to get solid actors who are evidently showing themselves off in this movie. For example Elle Fanning who portrays a naive little girl here. It is all highly artsy and otherworldly. When you watch it for the first time it is quite overwhelming to the senses but after a few weeks you won’t even know you have watched it at all. (07/09/2020)

Woody Allen, a tireless cinematic storyteller with a wonderful sense of poetry, restraint, and comic detail, tries to present New York in all its beauty, attractiveness, nakedness, and depravity through a newly-in-love couple full of ideals. However, the young couple pays for their emotional immaturity. With this film, Allen proves once again that he is one of the masters of dialogue and multi-layered stories. (75%) (15/01/2022)

Who would have thought that A Rainy Day in New York would be the Woody Allen movie that gets the ax? I don't want to comment on that case, but I'm glad that the film itself is still a classic Allen film from recent years, formally and stylistically fitting in among all those proven works that Allen has created since 2000. Everything is here - traditional sophisticated work with music, love for New York, beautifully chatty characters, intertwined relationships, and interesting life perspectives. One girl is blonde, the other a brunette. He is young and unspoiled and has a fascinating mother. Unexpected things happen behind the scenes. And in New York, it keeps raining and raining... Beautiful and intoxicating. As always. (21/12/2022)

New York in a romantic vibe, milked to the max. Allen is a little weaker this time and too laconic in story creation, but typically lively and topical in dialogue, and some of the scenes are full of life's truths and paradoxes. By far the most interesting are the characters who appear on the scene only briefly but have an absolutely crucial impact on the development of the story (Diego Luna, Kelly Rohrbach). Woody doesn't pull as hard on the reins this time as in his other films, but it's still light and fun fare for a Saturday afternoon. (01/08/2020)

After the hysterical and overly theatrical Wonder Wheel comes the steady and more grounded A Rainy Day in New York, which impresses mainly with its old-school feel, well written characters and brisk script. On the one hand, there's the earnest intellectual Gatsby, who clings to a time long gone. On the other is the slightly goofy and whimsical Ashleigh, a girl from Arizona who's completely out of her depth in New York. The two of them independently experience many surprises in the rainy metropolis, which may not be written by life itself, or by the master of dialogue himself, Woody Allen, who, even at more than eighty years old, proves that he is still in his prime and knows how to entertain the viewer in a non-violent way (30/12/2019)