Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Jul 15, 2025 3.5/4

The most physical of Allen’s comedies, this finds the actor paying tribute to some of his favorites like Bob Hope and the Marx Brothers.

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Joe Pollack St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sep 27, 2023

All hail Woody Allen, madcap of mirth, genius of comedy and multifaceted talent responsible for writing, directing, performing and arranging the music for Sleeper, easily one of the best film comedies of the year.

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Pauline Kael The New Yorker Feb 10, 2022

It's a small classic.

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Jun 28, 2021 8/10

Here, it's evident just how great of a comedy team Allen and Keaton make.

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Kathi Maio The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Mar 6, 2020

A great example of Allen at his entertaining best.

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John Simon Esquire Magazine Jan 27, 2020

Woody Allen's latest, Sleeper, is his best film to date.

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Dick Lochte Los Angeles Free Press Dec 17, 2019

Rest assured that Allen makes the most of the potentially vast comedy vistas the premise permits.

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Judith Crist New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 2, 2019

[Allen] has provided us with our comedy of the year and enabled us to call it hilarious without a quibble or a hesitation -- just with bellylaughs and guffaws.

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Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune Jan 18, 2013 3/4

These days, comedy beggars can't be choosers. Woody Allen is about all we've got. And Woody, please stay healthy.

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Fernando F. Croce CinePassion Nov 26, 2009

Allen's investigation of a "cosmic screwing" registers Kubrickian sci-fi

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Dave Kehr Chicago Reader Jun 4, 2007

As a stand-up routine it's a scream.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Apr 2, 2007 B-

The mild comedy antics are zany and the sci-fi parody is mostly pleasant.

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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Oct 5, 2006 4/5

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Derek Adams Time Out Feb 9, 2006

Plenty of one-liners, and it has the best banana-skin joke in film history.

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Christopher Smith Bangor Daily News (Maine) Nov 18, 2005 A-

Chaos is a bullet that rips through "Sleeper," which helps to make it the silly, freakish hit that it is.

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Christopher Null Filmcritic.com Oct 30, 2005 4/5

Pound for pound and minute for minute, Sleeper may just have more laughs in it than any other Woody Allen movie.

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jun 19, 2005 4/5

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Derek Elley Variety May 20, 2005

The film is loaded with throwaway literacy and broad slapstick, and while it fumbles the end, the parade of verbal and visual amusement is pleasant as long as it lasts.

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Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews Nov 19, 2004 4/5

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Oct 23, 2004 3.5/4

Sleeper is the closest Allen has come to classic slapstick-and-chase comedy, and he's good at it.

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