Woody Allen has written and directed 44 feature films over the past 45 years, a streak that would be amazing even if all of those films sucked.
They don’t, of course. I consider five of them flat-out masterpieces (I’ll let you speculate as to which five in the comments). Another dozen or so are various degrees of excellent, and five or ten others are various degrees of good to great.
In a sense, Allen is not just a filmmaker but a genre unto himself. And as genres go, he’s one of my very favorites.
However, the new millennium hasn’t been very kind to Woody Allen. Following a nice one-two punch with 1999’s Sweet and Lowdown and 2000’s Small Time Crooks, he released a string of mediocre, forgettable films — starting off with a duo that represent the nadir of his career to date, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion and Hollywood Ending.
Meet Me In Montauk 