Stanley Kauffmann

“…. Much has been made of the fact that [Allen] has moved from a Jewish view of the world to a gentile one. I deplore this, too, because I sense the Arthur Miller syndrome: if you are a Jew and want to write on large tragic matters, you must use gentile characters in order to get universality. Allen's characters are not, like those in Death of a Salesman, feebly disguised Jews; but they are abstracts, conjectures, with nothing of the reality that, for instance, the gentile Annie Hall had when avowedly seen through Jewish eyes.

“All the actors are acceptable, and I ought to note that Page works with much less affectation than usual and Stapleton with many fewer clichés.”

Stanley Kauffmann
The New Republic, Sept. 9, 1978
Before My Eyes, p 147
[don't have whole review]

[Like Farber, Kauffmann liked the scene where Eve ran out of tape during her suicide attempt.]