Match Point

Chris, a former tennis pro, takes a job as an instructor and befriends his wealthy young student, Tom. After being introduced to his family, Chris is soon engaged to Tom's sister, Chloe. Despite the professional and financial advantages that this relationship affords him, Chris becomes obsessed with Tom's fiancee, American actress Nola.

Match Point landed as one of Allen's most commercially and critically successful films in years, with American and French reviewers responding warmly to its taut, morally queasy portrait of class and luck in London. British critics were notably cooler, questioning whether Allen ever truly understood the city he was depicting — and that geographic fault line is the real story behind the divided reception.