Hannah And Her Sisters

Truly excellent 1986 Woody Allen drama. Not a joke-a-thon, but funny. A really good, grown up, not annoying or repetitive, family drama.
Allen has ironed out the tics that made his films sometimes rather too meta-, and he does what he does best, which is giving us the true lives of true characters, and, better than that, people. These may be people who live a closeted bourgeois life, but they are still people, and his portrayal of them is excellent.
Michael Caine gives probably the best straight dramatic performance we have seen from him. At once a sympathetic and confused character, he is excellent. All three sisters have their own individual interest, but Farrow's character, while on the surface the most superficial, turns out to have soemthing underneath that shows her as the perfect example of the facade that is felt by the middle-class. In this kind of insight, Allen is master.
His use of himself is also probably the best, partly for being the most restrained use of himself. It seems like a genuine exploration, rather than just a playing about.
Manhattan is of course beautiful, if not quite the star, due to the great interest we have in the characters. The ensemble cast suits Allen as he is able to really draw even the smallest things our of interactions.
This is Allen's best drama we have seen. It displays his mastery of the realist format within a certain setting (the lines are still distinctly Allen-esque theatrical, but this has its own realist quality. The use of voiceover, often criticised elsewhere, is flawless. It gives us insight and is not intrusive). A very good film.