Movie Review

Will 'A Rainy Day in New York' be Woody Allen's last American movie?

This middle-class comedy of manners works, but the director's old-school treading of safely entertaining tropes is a disappointment

27 October 2019 - 00:00 By and tymon smith

For over four decades Woody Allen has performed a feat unique in the history of modern American movies, producing an average of one film a year. But his latest, A Rainy Day in New York, almost threatened to scuttle Allen's prolific work rate, thanks to controversies surrounding accusations that he abused his daughter Dylan Farrow in the 1990s...

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