Character is destiny — at least for Woody Allen’s Whatever Works. Allen’s exercise in Woody Allen nostalgia opens with a snatch of Groucho Marx singing his trademark paradoxical assertion (“Hello, I ...

“Whatever Works” does work, at least to a minor extent. The same way that last month’s “The Proposal” was an average Sandra Bullock romp, meant mostly for her particular fans, the latest Woody Allen ...

Woody Allen reportedly wrote Whatever Works around the same time as Annie Hall and made only a few cosmetic changes before he shot it last year, and if that’s true, it’s depressing on too many levels ...

It's odd to hear the voice of a 40-year-old Woody Allen coming out of the mouth of a 62-year-old Larry David, who's being directed by a 73-year-old Allen. But that's the feel of "Whatever Works," the ...