“Match Point” is being heralded as a return to form for Woody Allen, which means anyone who doesn’t like it is likely to be accused of not bowing low enough at the altar. And the picture is crisply ...

One reason for the fascination of Woody Allen's "Match Point" is that each and every character is rotten. This is a thriller not about good vs. evil, but about various species of evil engaged in a ...

Jack Draper is through to the Cincinnati Open quarter-finals after winning what has been described as “the most controversial match point ever”. The British No 1 came from behind to beat Canada’s ...

There are those who will take the opportunity to elevate “Match Point” to instant classic status and those who will damn it with faint praise — yet both will do so by saying the same thing: “Woody ...

Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week on court. This week, the best match point of 2025 descended into chaos, ...

Woody Allen’s new movie, Match Point, begins with a shot of a tennis court as a voice-over introduces one of the film’s central themes: “The man who said ‘I’d rather be lucky than good’ saw deeply ...

After Match Point debuted at Cannes, the word spread that this was a different kind of Woody Allen film than what he'd been making lately—more polished, more assured, and, believe it or not, a ...

In recent years, Woody Allen’s movies have grown encrusted with mannerism, set less inside the real world than in the twee Upper East Side of his mind. Now he has rediscovered himself, and reality, ...