Judge Woody Allen’s Movies on Their Artistic Merit

Woody Allen, the 83-year-old writer and director with over 60 movies as well as a surprising number of Broadway shows to his credit, is less popular than ever in the era of the #MeToo movement and the — mainly online — leisure sport of excoriating artists who are not quite as morally upright as the legions of the online.

On February 7, Allen was back in the news with the announcement that he is suing Jeff Bezos’s Amazon Studios for $68 million for breach of contract. The e-commerce leviathan no longer plans to distribute Allen’s newest movie, A Rainy Day in New York, or to pursue any other projects with him. In the lawsuit, Allen’s lawyer says that Amazon fickleness was attributable to Dylan Farrow’s quarter-century-old allegations, which have attracted renewed attention in the wake of the Me Too movement.

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Mary Spencer

Mary Spencer is a writer residing in the eastern United States.

Woody Allen, the 83-year-old writer and director with over 60 movies as well as a surprising number of Broadway shows to his credit, is less popular than ever in the era of the #MeToo movement and the — mainly online — leisure sport of excoriating artists who are not quite as morally upright as the legions of the online.

On February 7, Allen was back in the news with the announcement that he is suing Jeff Bezos’s Amazon Studios for $68 million for breach of contract. The e-commerce leviathan no longer plans to distribute Allen’s newest movie, A Rainy Day in New York, or to pursue any other projects with him. In the lawsuit, Allen’s lawyer says that Amazon fickleness was attributable to Dylan Farrow’s quarter-century-old allegations, which have attracted renewed attention in the wake of the Me Too movement.