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Review

Lost amid the controversy surrounding the breakup of Allen and Farrow, this minor addition to Allen's filmography is nonetheless an entertaining, well-made and often amusing ode to early German cinema. Based on Allen's stage play "Death," the story centers on Woody's hapless nebbish who becomes the object of a lynch mob's hunt for a serial killer. The action takes place in an archetypal pre-WWII European city on a foggy night and is shot in a stark black and white which is filled with visual references to the German Expressionist classics M and Nosferatu. In addition to an impressive supporting cast, there's the superb soundtrack composed of a delightful mélange of Kurt Weill cabaret tunes.