Summary
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Coup de Chance
is Woody Allen’s highest-rated film in over a decade, scoring 82% on the Tomatometer. - The last film to score better on Rotten Tomatoes for Allen was 2013’s Cate Blanchett-led dramedy
Blue Jasmine. -
Coup de Chance
also registers an audience score of 80% on RT.
It’s been over a decade since a Woody Allen film has scored as well with the critics as his new movie Coup de Chance. And, at the time of this writing, Coup de Chance currently registers 82% on Rotten Tomatoes against 68 reviews. That’s the highest Tomatometer rating achieved by one of Allen’s pictures since 2013’s Blue Jasmine (90%). In his review, famed film critic Leonard Maltin said of Allen’s 50th big-screen endeavor:
Would anyone pay particular attention to a French import about love and deception without well-known stars if Woody Allen’s name weren’t attached to it? Perhaps not. But since this is his work — recognizably so —it’s worth seeing.
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The only film of Allen’s, other than Coup de Chance, not to splat and be rated as rotten by the majority of critics in the last 11 years is 2016’s Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart-led Café Society (71% against 258 reviews). Kyle Smith of the Wall Street Journal declares, “[Coupe de Chance is] Woody Allen’s best work in many years.” Manohla Dargis of The New York Times says:
‘Coup de Chance,’ the latest from Woody Allen, looks and plays like many of his recent movies, only better; it sounds like them, too, except that it’s in French.
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Coup de chance is the 50th film Allen has directed and one of his best. It was made in France and is, to all intents and purposes, a French movie.
Glenn Kenny of RogerEbert.com says:
A tight and effective French-language thriller that is also, among other things, the world’s longest mother-in-law joke.
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Chris Vogner of Rolling Stone adds:
It’s certainly as good as anything Allen has made since 2013’s Blue Jasmine.
Whether Coup de Chance will be remembered among Woody Allen’s top-tier films remains to be seen, but the thrilling dramedy, at least where the critics are concerned, certainly surpasses anything the filmmaker has created over the last 11 years. Additionally, the movie’s audience score on Rotten Tomatoes is currently 80%.
Coup de Chance is now available on digital and VOD platforms, including Fandango at Home, YouTube, Google Play Movies & TV and Amazon Prime Video.
Check out how Allen’s films since 2013 have fared with the critics on the Tomatometer (below):
- Blue Jasmine (2013): 90%
- Magic in the Moonlight (2014): 51%
- Irrational Man (2015): 47%
- Café Society (2016): 71%
- Wonder Wheel (2017): 31%
- A Rainy Day in New York (2019): 47%
- Rifkin’s Festival (2020): 41%
- Coup de Chance (2023): 82%
