WOODY ALLEN, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, STOP CASTING YOURSELF IN YOUR MOVIES.

PLEASE STOP CASTING YOURSELF IN YOUR MOVIES.

Or, if you do, have something different/interesting to add to the character you play.

Right now, whenever you are in your film, you are being an M. Night Shyamalan: you're appearing in your movie just to appear in your movie. When you are first seen, the audience says "Oh, it's Allen/Shyamalan. Why is he here?" After the movie is over, the audience says "Why was he there?"

Plus, you look so tired, blunted, and without energy in these films. The amazing, frenetic and self-defeating anxiety that we saw in Woody Allen of the '70s and '80s has become the hollowed-out caricature we see in this movie. (And, frankly, the jokes you give yourself aren't anywhere close to those of your "early, funny" movies.)

So. Stop casting yourself. Unless you can achieve something novel.

Thank you and good night.