He still has his moments. From the later movies I really liked Sweet & Lowdown, Curse of the Jade Scorpion, and Whatever Works was great just because of the pairing of Larry David and Woody Allen. That’s like a neurotic New Yorker jewpocalypse right there!
But yeah, he doesn’t have any inhibitions about mining his personal issues for material and putting it on the screen. I guess that was always his schtick, but when he was younger, at least he had a wide range of problems to make movies about so it didn’t get boring. Now it seems like he is stuck in a loop, compulsively rehashing the same story about an older man who jeopardizes everything in his life by chasing younger women. I think he’s better off just not casting himself to play the lead. If it’s Owen Wilson chasing the girl, you can pretend it’s a regular love story and the creep factor goes away, but every time Woody plays the part it’s unavoidable.
In Jade Scorpion it was an unrealistic love affair because of the ages.
and he started taking himself seriously along the way.
hannah and her sisters was good, when his mother runs into the other room crying because he wants to become a catholic lol