
Woody Allen's sentimental reminiscence about the golden age of radio. A series of vignettes involving radio personalities is intertwined with the life of a working class family in Rockaway Beach, NY circa 1942.... (Full plot summary below)
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Woody Allen's sentimental reminiscence about the golden age of radio. A series of vignettes involving radio personalities is intertwined with the life of a working class family in Rockaway Beach, NY circa 1942.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertRadio Days is so ambitious and so audacious that it almost defies description. It's a kaleidoscope of dozens of characters, settings and scenes - the most elaborate production Allen has ever made - and it's inexhaustible, spinning out one delight after another. |
| Time OutGeoff AndrewIt's a great idea for a movie, but Allen fatally opts for a Fellini: Amarcord approach of formless narrative, larger-than-life coincidence, and rambling ruminations on what times there used to be. |
| Miami HeraldBill CosfordThe brilliance of the film is the way in which Allen pays tribute to radio while subtly condemning television, which, he seems to be arguing, has partially robbed us of our imaginations. |
| Movie MetropolisJohn J. Puccio...a sweet, lighthearted, nostalgic look back at an era before the tube. |
| VarietyVariety StaffAlthough lacking the bite and depth of his best work, Radio Days is one of Woody Allen's most purely entertaining pictures. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonA movie that draws you close to it like listeners around that glowing radio dial. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter Canavese[A] ridiculously entertaining nostalgia exercise...Radio Days emerged from a highly fertile period for [Woody] Allen, and the film bubbles with creativity and Allen hallmarks. [Blu-ray] |
| Washington PostPaul AttanasioWithout a story or, for that matter, any theme but a kind of aimless nostalgia, you peel and peel away at it only to find, in the end, nothing. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyAs free in form as it is generous of spirit. |
| The Associated PressBob ThomasChildhood anecdotes and charming vignettes are set against bright-light, big-city sets, a-dazzle with beautiful players. All that doesn't disguise the emptiness at the center of Radio Days, which misses the momentum that comes with a plot. |