Editing Annie Hall (section)

===Critical response===
[[File:Diane Keaton 2012.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Diane Keaton]] received widespread critical acclaim and numerous accolades for her performance, including the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]]]]
''Annie Hall'' met with widespread critical acclaim upon its release, with major praise directed towards the film's script and the performances of Allen and Keaton.

[[Tim Radford]] of ''[[The Guardian]]'' called the film "Allen's most closely focused and daring film to date".<ref name="gaurdian">{{cite web |last=Radford |first=Tim |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/18/annie-hall-archive-review |title=Annie Hall: Archive review |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=September 29, 1977 |access-date=July 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106043137/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/18/annie-hall-archive-review |archive-date=January 6, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]''' [[Vincent Canby]] preferred ''Annie Hall'' to Allen's second directorial effort, ''[[Take the Money and Run (film)|Take the Money and Run]]'', since the former is more "humane" while the latter is more a "cartoon".<ref name="newyorktimes">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=EE05E7DF173AE562BC4951DFB266838C669EDE |title=Movie Review – Annie Hall |last=Canby |first=Vincent |author-link=Vincent Canby |date=April 21, 1977 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=July 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721233636/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=EE05E7DF173AE562BC4951DFB266838C669EDE |archive-date=July 21, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> Several critics have compared the film favorably to Bergman's ''[[Scenes from a Marriage]]'' (1973),<ref name="newyorktimes" /><ref name="variety">{{cite magazine|last=McBride|first=Joseph|author-link=Joseph McBride (writer)|url=https://variety.com/1977/more/reviews/annie-hall-1200424062/|title=Variety Reviews – Annie Hall|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=March 29, 1979|access-date=July 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304205838/http://variety.com/1977/more/reviews/annie-hall-1200424062/|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="slant" /> including Joseph McBride in ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', who found it Allen's "most three-dimensional film to date" with an ambition equal to Bergman's best even as the co-stars become the "contemporary equivalent of&nbsp;... [[Spencer Tracy|Tracy]]-[[Katharine Hepburn|Hepburn]]."<ref name="variety" />

More critically, Peter Cowie commented that the film "suffers from its profusion of cultural references and [[asides]]".<ref>{{harvnb|Cowie |1996|p=49}}</ref> Writing for ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine, [[John Simon (critic)|John Simon]] called the film "unfunny comedy, poor moviemaking, and embarrassing self-revelation," and wrote that Keaton's performance was "in bad taste to watch and indecency to display," saying that the part should have been played by Robin Mary Paris, the actress who appears briefly in the scene where Alvy Singer has written a two-character play nakedly based on himself and Annie Hall. Simon's review of ''Annie Hall '' "It is a film so shapeless, sprawling, repetitious, and aimless as to seem to beg for oblivion. At this, it is successful."<ref>John Simon, New York Magazine, May 2, 1977, pg. 74</ref>

The film has continued to receive positive reviews. In his 2002 lookback, [[Roger Ebert]] added it to his [[Great Movies]] list and commented with surprise that the film had "an instant familiarity" despite its age,<ref name="ebert"/> and ''[[Slant (magazine)|Slant]]'' writer Jaime N. Christley found the one-liners "still gut-busting after 35 years".<ref name="slant">{{cite magazine |last=Christley |first=Jaime |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/annie-hall/6348 |title=Annie Hall &#124; Film Review |magazine=Slant Magazine |date=June 17, 2012 |access-date=July 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120621001439/http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/annie-hall/6348 |archive-date=June 21, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> A later ''Guardian'' critic, [[Peter Bradshaw]], named it the best comedy film of all time, commenting that "this wonderfully funny, unbearably sad film is a miracle of comic writing and inspired film-making".<ref>{{cite web |first=Peter |last=Bradshaw |author-link=Peter Bradshaw |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/18/annie-hall-comedy |title=Annie Hall: the best comedy film of all time |work=The Guardian |date=October 17, 2010 |access-date=July 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140504005720/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/18/annie-hall-comedy |archive-date=May 4, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> John Marriott of the ''[[Radio Times]]'' believed that ''Annie Hall'' was the film where Allen "found his own singular voice, a voice that echoes across events with a mixture of exuberance and introspection", referring to the "comic delight" derived from the "spirited playing of Diane Keaton as the kooky innocent from the Midwest, and Woody himself as the fumbling New York neurotic".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/cmhqv/annie-hall|title=Annie Hall|magazine=[[Radio Times]]|access-date=March 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312224627/http://www.radiotimes.com/film/cmhqv/annie-hall|archive-date=March 12, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' magazine rated the movie five out of five stars, calling it a "classic".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Kennedy |first=Colin |url=https://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?DVDID=5999 |title=Empire's Annie Hall Movie Review |magazine=[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]] |access-date=July 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121116180153/http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?DVDID=5999 |archive-date=November 16, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2017, Claire Dederer wrote, "''Annie Hall'' is the greatest comic film of the twentieth century [...] because it acknowledges the irrepressible nihilism that lurks at the center of all comedy."<ref name="Dederer">{{cite journal|last1=Dederer|first1=Claire|title=What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?|journal=The Paris Review|date=November 20, 2017|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/20/art-monstrous-men/|access-date=November 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127101003/https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/20/art-monstrous-men/|archive-date=November 27, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Japanese filmmaker [[Akira Kurosawa]] cited ''Annie Hall'' as one of his favorite films.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Lee Thomas-Mason |title=From Stanley Kubrick to Martin Scorsese: Akira Kurosawa once named his top 100 favourite films of all time |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/akira-kurosawa-100-favourite-films-list/ |website=Far Out |date=January 12, 2021 |publisher=Far Out Magazine |access-date=June 10, 2021 |archive-date=June 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610003407/https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/akira-kurosawa-100-favourite-films-list/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Akira Kurosawa's Top 100 Movies! | url=http://wildgrounds.com/index.php/2009/01/17/akira-kurosawas-top-100-movies/ | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327124349/http://wildgrounds.com/index.php/2009/01/17/akira-kurosawas-top-100-movies/ | archive-date=March 27, 2010 | df=dmy-all}}</ref>

On review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has a rating of 97% based on 128 reviews, with an average rating of 9.10/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Filled with poignant performances and devastating humor, ''Annie Hall'' represents a quantum leap for Woody Allen and remains an American classic."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/annie_hall/ | title=''Annie Hall'' (1977) | work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] | publisher=[[Fandango Media]] | access-date=March 8, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514214753/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/annie_hall/ | archive-date=May 14, 2019 | url-status=live}}</ref> [[Metacritic]] gave the film a score of 92 out of 100 based on 20 critical reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/annie-hall-1977 |title=''Annie Hall'' Reviews |work=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |access-date=March 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180214235649/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/annie-hall-1977 |archive-date=February 14, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>