10 Movies That Don't Deserve Their 100% Rotten Tomatoes Rating
5. Broadway Danny Rose
Woody Allen is no stranger to getting 100% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes - in addition to Broadway Danny Rose, Sleeper, Zelig and Husbands and Wives have all earned top marks on the aggregate website. Given that he's one of - if not the - most prolific filmmakers still active in the industry this perhaps isn't all that surprising: churn out enough material and some of it is bound to come out shining.
Allen doesn't earn any brownie points for casting himself as the bufuddled agent seeking out stars to throw into the limelight - if there's one thing you can be certain of in a Woody Allen film it's that he'll probably play a rough facimile of himself, all nervous affectation and one-liners. Broadway Danny Rose is one of his lightest efforts and as such avoids the pitfalls of movies he made around the same time - those black and white homages to Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini which felt like the inferior works of a film student treading water out of his depth.
While Broadway Danny Rose is frequently amusing and the crisp black and white photography often striking, Allen has made a number of far superior movies which sit lower down the scale in Rotten Tomatoes' rating system. This is a slight affair, less exuberant and engaging than his masterpieces such as Annie Hall and Manhattan, more modest and you might say average when his full body of work is taken into consideration.
What It Deserves: 89%