Whatever Works Critic Reviews

Yellnikoff, played with perfect pitch by Larry David.Read the full review

It's a slight-but-enjoyable effort, and it features something a little on the surprising side: an optimistic ending.Read the full review

Though Clarkson acquits herself reasonably well in a terribly conceived role, her entrance interrupts David’s hilariously twisted mentorship of Wood and sends the movie careening in a far less promising direction.Read the full review

Whatever Works feels like something out of time and, worse, out of step. Hell, Allen wrote the script back in the 1970s for Zero Mostel.Read the full review

Features enough genuine laughs to give it decent commercial traction.Read the full review

Whatever Works is very minor Woody, querulous, fitfully funny, and removed from any shared reality.Read the full review

Woody, please: Go back to the European locales that so energized you of late.Read the full review

The result is Allen's weakest film in years.Read the full review

This far-fetched, deliberately artificial game of musical chairs -- in which mismatched characters encircle, attract and repel each other -- feels forced, often losing itself in excess verbiage.Read the full review