Certain echoes from Allen's own tabloid ferment get channeled through bombastic speakers here.

Deconstructing Harry is abrasive, complex, lacerating and self-revelatory. It's also very funny, most of the time.

No single Woody Allen film ever sums up everything, or could, and what is fascinating is to watch him, year after year, making the most personal of films, and hiding himself in plain view.

A monstrously funny middle finger of a movie.