[...] Manhattan, Woody Allen's extraordinarily fine and funny new film, is about many things, including a time and place where fashion probably blights more lives, more quickly, than any amounts of booze, drugs, radioactive fallout, and saturated animal fats. In this Manhattan, it's no longer a question of keeping up, but of staying ahead. The person on this week's cover is a leading candidate for next year's feature story that asks, "Whatever happened to...?"

[...] This is pretty much the fate of a number of people who move through and around the Manhattan of Isaac Davis (Mr. Allen), a successful comedy writer who quits his television job to write a novel. As Isaac Davis is Mr. Allen's most fully realized, most achingly besieged male character, so is Manhattan his most moving and expansive work to date. It's as serious as Interiors - if one must use that often foolish word - but far less constricted and self-conscious. In Manhattan, Mr. Allen is working in a milieu he knows well and with characters he understands and appreciates, especially when they are drowning. [...]

Vincent Canby in The New York Times

USA, 1979, 96 min

Director: Woody Allen

Writer: Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman

Cast:
Woody Allen ... Isaac
Diane Keaton ... Mary
Michael Murphy ... Yale
Mariel Hemingway ... Tracy
Meryl Streep ... Jill

Cinematography: Gordon Willis

Film Editing: Susan E. Morse

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Contemporary New York Times Movie Review April 25, 1979