Deconstructing Harry
Reception

Deconstructing Harry (1997)

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7.9
5 platform(s) · 7 ratings 103,443 votes
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Audience 7.3/10 47 votes Synced 2026-07-19
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External reviews

Owen Gleiberman · Entertainment Weekly 91.00/100.00

Deconstructing Harry is Woody Allen's naughty-boy confessional movie, a disquietingly candid and funny portrait of a pathological narcissist.

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Kenneth Turan · Los Angeles Times 90.00/100.00

A bravura act of self-revelation, its vivid portrait of one man's fears, fantasies and neuroses uses a mixture of reality, imagination and comedy to create one of the writer-director's most involving films.

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Ron Wells · Film Threat 80.00/100.00

I've never been a fan, but in the space of a couple hours the Woodster gives both an explanation AND the finger to ALL of his critics. This is mean-spirited fun, just the way we like it!

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David Stratton · Variety 80.00/100.00

A tremendous, stellar cast is mostly confined to minor roles, but all shine under Allen's assured direction.

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Marjorie Baumgarten · Austin Chronicle 78.00/100.00

Then along comes a movie like Deconstructing Harry, which marks the writer/director/actor's return to top form, once again using the stuff of his life to create the stuff of his fiction.

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Ruthe Stein · San Francisco Chronicle 100.00/100.00

Woody Allen's strongest and most mordantly funny movie in years, even if it is also his bleakest.

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Janet Maslin · The New York Times 90.00/100.00

This poisonous, brazenly autobiographical comedy shows off the best of Mr. Allen's misanthropic humor.

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Roger Ebert · Chicago Sun-Times 88.00/100.00

This is in many ways his most revealing film, his most painful, and if it also contains more than his usual quotient of big laughs, what was it the man said? "We laugh, that we may not cry."

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David Ansen · Newsweek 80.00/100.00

Woody Allen is back in sharp comic form, though it's likely that his abrasive black comedy Deconstructing Harry will alienate as many people as it tickles.

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Rita Kempley · Washington Post 80.00/100.00

A provocative, but extremely profane work, it is surely Allen's bawdiest since "Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex."

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