Reviews round-up
What’s With Baum?
by Woody Allen
1 of 5 critics positive
7 reviews: 1 rave, 2 mixed, 2 pans; 2 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
“wonderful novel reads like one of his films”
Woody Allen’s wonderful novel reads like one of his films
“just don’t expect any surprises”
What’s With Baum? by Woody Allen review – the film-maker’s late-life first novel
“Funny-ish, but Very Familiar”
Woody Allen’s First Novel: Funny-ish, but Very Familiar (Published 2025)
“sloppy and repetitive debut novel”
Woody Allen’s sloppy and repetitive debut novel is another thinly veiled self-portrait
“incorrigible story of male lechery”
Woody Allen’s debut novel is an incorrigible story of male lechery – review
Woody Allen directs himself, this time in writing
Life imitates art in Woody Allen’s debut novel about scandal
Verdicts are read from each outlet's own headline and summary; quotes are their words, credited and linked. Where a paywalled summary does not give the critic's view, we say so rather than guess. How it works.
