Woody Allen's continued exploration of his beloved New York: the mythical past of Roaring Twenties speakeasies, the Broadway of Ziegfeld and O'Neill, the chorus girls, the Lost Generation café intellectuals, all that. New territory, for him. Once over lightly. For all its frothiness, though, it nonetheless gnaws on the Big Issue of human values measured against artistic values: the burning-house question of whether to save the children or the Rembrandt. This issue never weighs the comedy down, but nor does it generate much funniness. John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly, Jim Broadbent, Chazz Palminteri. (1994) — Duncan Shepherd
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