Stefan Pape Common Sense Media May 12, 2024

Radio Days is unlike many of his other films, in that rather than have a linear, more conventional narrative, it's a series of short accounts, tied together by a nostalgic affection for the wireless.

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Joe Clay The Times (UK) Dec 14, 2023

A Jewish family in Thirties New York seek airwave escapism in this indulgent but lovely Valentine to the golden age of radio — one of the best Woody Allen films in which he stayed behind the camera.

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Glenn Kenny Video Review Mar 29, 2023 4/4

It is wildly imaginative, playful, slightly unsettling and very funny. Not funny in a nice way, however.

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Adam Mars-Jones Independent (UK) Mar 29, 2023

There is still the feeling, despite the pleasures that Radio Days delivers, that Allen's new films now differ, not as cities differ, but as one suburb differs from the next.

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Philip French Observer (UK) Mar 29, 2023

No film this year has given me as much pleasure. I loved every carefully crafted minute.

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Derek Malcolm Guardian Mar 28, 2023

What the film offers is a stylish child's eye view of a half forgotten world, acted out with the kind of comic dedication that [Woody Allen's] players seem to find so easy under his direction.

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Victoria Mather Daily Telegraph (UK) Mar 28, 2023

Radio Days is ephemeral; it is also pure, simple pleasure. What could be more deliciously intelligent?

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David Robinson The Times (UK) Mar 28, 2023

The genius of it is to define and encapsulate a vanished age (if not of innocence, at least of very different values from today's), the memory of which is universal.

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Nov 12, 2022 3.5/4

A lovely daydream of a film.

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Aug 31, 2022 B

It plays as a perfectly amiable nostalgic pastiche, and only afterward do you flesh it out.

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Jordan M. Smith IONCINEMA.com Nov 4, 2020 3.5/5

Allen's film is both tribute and still relevant criticism, aching for times gone by while acknowledging that this medium of easy entertainment comes with a price.

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Ángel Luis Inurria El Pais (Spain) Jun 16, 2020

A light, complacent, and evocative comedy whose vision leaves us with a sweet aftertaste. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Grant Watson Fiction Machine Feb 11, 2020 8/10

It is clever and funny for sure, but it is also remarkably sweet with a deep melancholic longing: for childhood, for old-fashioned entertainment, and most of all for family.

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Bob Thomas Associated Press Jul 25, 2019

Actors always perform their best for Woody Allen.

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Peter Canavese Groucho Reviews Jul 21, 2014 3.5/4

[A] ridiculously entertaining nostalgia exercise...Radio Days emerged from a highly fertile period for [Woody] Allen, and the film bubbles with creativity and Allen hallmarks. [Blu-ray]

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Aug 27, 2010 B+

Vastly entertaining and in moments even magical, Radio Days is a warmly nostalgic but decidedly unsentimental portrait of Wood Allen's childhood in WWII, when radio was the primary medium of communication.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Dec 25, 2009 A-

It's a wonderfully realized film, one of Woody's best, that has slipped under the radar.

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Variety Staff Variety Mar 26, 2009

Although lacking the bite and depth of his best work, Radio Days is one of Woody Allen's most purely entertaining pictures.

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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Dec 2, 2007 4/5

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Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid Aug 25, 2007

A perfect mixture of laughs and heartbreak, it's one of the ones I can see over and over again.

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